HC Deb 05 February 1988 vol 126 cc805-7W
Mr. Wray

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the six health authorities with the highest percentage of post-neonatal deaths for each year since 1975.

Mrs. Currie

[pursuant to her reply, 26 January 1988, c. 219]: The full information requested can be provided only at disproportionate cost. However, readily available figures for regional health authorities, and for district health authorities are shown in the tables.

Regional Health Authorities (RHAs) with the highest post-neonatal mortality rates, 1975–86, England and Wales
Regional Health Authority Rate
1975
North Western 5.9
East Anglia 5.6
Trent 5.2
South East Thames 5.2
North East Thames 5.1
West Midlands 5.0
1976
Yorkshire 5.1
North Western 5.1
Wessex 4.9
East Anglia 4.6
South East Thames 4.6
West Midlands 4.6
1977
Yorkshire 5.1
North East Thames 5.0
North Western 4.9
Northern 4.9
West Midlands 4.5
Mersey 4.4
South East Thames 4.4
1978
South East Thames 4.9
South West Thames 4.7
Wessex 4.6
West Midlands 4.6
South Western 4.5
North Western 4.5
1979
Yorkshire 5.2
South East Thames 5.0
East Anglia 4.8
Mersey 4.8
North Western 4.7
Wessex 4.7
West Midlands 4.7
1980
Mersey 4.9
Wessex 4.9
South East Thames 4.7
South West Thames 4.6
Yorkshire 4.6
North East Thames 4.5
North Western 4.5
North West Thames 4.5
1981
Wessex 5.2
Yorkshire 5.1
South East Thames 4.8
North Western 4.5
West Midlands 4.4
South Western 4.3
Wales 4.3
1982
North West Thames 4.9
North Western 4.8
South Western 4.8
South East Thames 4.7
Wessex 4.7
Yorkshire 4.7

Regional Health Authority Rate
1983
Wessex 5.0
North Western 4.8
Yorkshire 4.6
South Western 4.5
East Anglia 4.3
Trent 4.3
1984
North Western 4.5
Yorkshire 4.5
Wessex 4.3
South East Thames 4.1
North East Thames 4.0
South West Thames 3.9
1985
South East Thames 4.6
Yorkshire 4.6
North Western 4.5
North East Thames 4.0
Oxford 4.0
North West Thames 3.9
Wales 3.9
Wessex 3.9
1986
North Western 5.0
South Western 4.9
Yorkshire 4.6
South East Thames 4.5
Wessex 4.3
South West Thames 4.2
1 Deaths four weeks and over but under one year per 1,000 live births.

District Health authorities (DHAs) with the highest postneonatal mortality rates1 1983–86, England
District Health Authority Rate
1983–84
Grimsby 8.5
Burnley 7.9
Wandsworth 7.3
Salford 7.2
Scarborough 6.9
Bloomsbury 6.9
1984–85
Salford 7.9
Central Birmingham 7.2
Greenwich 6.8
Scarborough 6.6
Winchester 6.4
Macclesfield 6.3
1985.86
Rugby 8.8
Bloomsbury 7.4
Brighton 7.0
Scarborough 7.0
Torbay 6.8
Milton Keynes 6.6
1 Deaths 4 weeks and over but under 1 year per 1,000 live briths.