§ Mr. MealeTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) if he will give the levels of spending on psychogeriatric patients, of all the area health authorities in the Trent region for each year from 1979 to 1987, inclusive;
(2) if he will give the levels of spending on geriatric patients for all the area health authorities in the Trent region for each year from 1979 to 1987, inclusive;
(3) if he will give the levels of spending on the mentally handicapped of all the area health authorities in the Trent region for each year from 1979 to 1987, inclusive;
(4) if he will give the levels of spending on the mentally ill of all the area health authorities in the Trent Region for each year from 1979 to 1987, inclusive.
§ Mrs. Currie[holding answer 15 January 1988]: Information on health authority expenditure by type of patient is not collected centrally. Hospital cost returns submitted to the Department show expenditure on hospitals of different types and cost returns in respect of community health services show expenditure relating to the major areas of activity.
Hospital cost returns submitted by district health authorities in the Trent region, since their inception on 1 April 1982, show total current expenditure on hospitals categorised as geriatric, mental handicap and mental illness as follows (nil expenditure indicates that a district had no hospitals in that particular category during the year).
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Type of hospital: mental handicap Health district 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 11985–86 11986–87 North Derbyshire 3,760,460 3,854,884 3,978,758 4,128 160 4,681,143 South Derbyshire 4,202,289 4,225,978 4,626,664 4,690 461 4,937,146 Leicestershire 6,496,328 6,947,855 7,285,903 7,554 433 8,185,386 North Lincolnshire 4,650,608 4,765,020 5,111,489 23,836,817 3,682,726 South Lincolnshire 2,292,253 2,820,998 3,034,981 3,239 575 3,787,246 Bassetlaw — — — — — Central Notts 4,506,470 4,740,308 4,850,758 9,682,446 10,428,017 Nottingham — — — — — Barnsley — — 594,870 1,066,991 1,314,513 Doncaster 3,542,812 3,551,173 3,728,446 3,756,358 3,610,210 Rotherham 818,942 886,983 794,973 790,732 875,333 Sheffield 5,219,160 5,183,987 5,603,047 7,186,103 7,383,766 1 Includes expenditure on National Health Service Community Units for the mentally handicapped. 2 Expenditure reduced due to transfer of a hospital to Grimsby Health Authority.
Type of hospital: mental Illness Expenditure (£s) Health district 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 North Derbyshire — — — — — South Derbyshire 12,777,177 13,285,772 13,788,416 14,377,703 14,966,212 Leicestershire 13,174,162 14,320,593 13,823,662 13,633,952 15,026,698 North Lincolnshire 7,643,349 7,652,187 8,110,451 8,138,261 8,585,737 South Lincolnshire 4,510,549 4,262,967 5,830,970 5,024,503 5,199,335 Bassetlaw — — — — — Central Notts — — — — — Nottingham 14,674,232 14,957,211 14,615,781 14,561,423 15,232,277 Barnsley 1,230,817 1,221,006 1,456,774 1,775,115 1,894,087 Doncaster 1,186,001 1,274,749 1,338,424 1,679,227 1,734,360 Rotherham 485,542 505,659 1— 1,454,723 1,734,831 Sheffield 9,965,152 10,355,025 10,676,196 13,726,853 14,417,279 1 Nil expenditure in 1984-85 due to closure of one hospital in 1983–84 and opening of new hospital in 1985–86.