District Nurses (Hansard, 25 July 1988)

§ Mr. Newton

[holding answer 14 July 1988]: The information for 1986 is given in the table.

It should be noted that part of the variation in the figures is due to differences in demand due for example to the proportion of elderly people in the population. (Around half of patients seen by district nurses are aged 65 140W or over). Also some health authorities use district nurses to provide a service in health centres and on GPs' premises, which of course produces a markedly higher contact rate than is possible if the same staff are used primarily for home visiting.

Number of persons treated by district nurses during 1986
	Number of persons treated by district nurses Per 1,000 population
England	73
1. Northern	116
1. Hartlepool	131
2. North Tees	93
3. South Tees	181
4. East Cumbria	33
5. South Cumbria	80
6. West Cumbria	206
7. Darlington	104
8. Durham	72
9. North West Durham	83
10. South West Durham	98
11. Northumberland	163
12. Gateshead	46
13. Newcastle	63
14. North Tyneside	197
15. South Tyneside	36
16. Sunderland	195
2. Yorkshire	62
1. Hull	53
2. East Yorkshire	69
3. Grimsby	46
4. Scunthorpe	63
5. Northallerton	21
6. York	53
7. Scarborough	51
8. Harrogate	61
9. Bradford	90
10. Airedale	122
11. Calderdale	68
12. Huddersfield	58
13. Dewsbury	51
14. Leeds Western	27
15. Leeds Eastern	45
16. Wakefield	76
17. Pontefract	108
3. Trent	83
1. North Derbyshire	100
2. South Derbyshire	70
3. Leicestershire	76
4. North Lincolnshire	92
5. South Lincolnshire	83
6. Bassetlaw	61
7. Central Nottinghamshire	148
8. Nottingham	97
9. Barnsley	74
10. Doncaster	98
11. Rotherham	59
12. Sheffield	55
4. East Anglia	80
1. Cambridge	90
2. Peterborough	160
3. West Suffolk	102
4. East Suffolk	46
5. Norwich	67
6. Great Yarmouth	35
7. West Norfolk and Wisbech	39
8. Huntingdon	130
5. North West Thames	47
1. North Bedfordshire	51
2. South Bedfordshire	56
3. North Hertfordshire	59

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Number of persons treated by district nurses Per 1,000 population
4. East Hertfordshire	29
5. North West Hertfordshire	24
6. South West Hertfordshire	42
7. Barnet	58
8. Harrow	61
9. Hillingdon	30
10. Hounslow and Spelthorne	127
11. Ealing	30
12. Brent	33
13. Paddington	26
14. Riverside	24
6. North East Thames	44
1. Basildon and Thurrock	60
2. Mid Essex	46
3. North East Essex	39
4. West Essex	44
5. Southend	52
6. Barking, Havering and Brentwood	26
7. Hampstead	38
8. Bloomsbury	79
9. Islington	26
10. City and Hackney	69
11. Newham	12
12. Tower Hamlels	51
13. Enfield	37
14. Haringey	25
15. Redbridge	63
16. Waltham Forest	51
7. South East Thames	74
1. Brighton	84
2, Eastbourne	148
3. Hastings	104
4, South East Kent	83
5. Canterbury and Thanet	45
6. Dartford and Gravesham	68
7. Maidstone	59
8. Medway	99
9. Tunbridge Wells	46
10. Bexley	91
11. Greenwich	41
12. Bromley	49
13. West Lambeth	17
14. Camberwell N.	110
15. Lewisham and Southwark	53
8. South West Thames	78
1. North West Surrey	34
2. West Surrey and North East Hants	61
3. South West Surrey	60
4. Mid Surrey	51
5. East Surrey	197
6. Chichester	123
7. Mid Downs	51
8. Worthing	160
9. Croydon	129
10. Kingston and Esher	53
11. Richmond, Roehampton and Twickenham	25
12. Wandsworth	21
13. Sutton and Merton	48
9. Wessex	55
1. East Dorset	42
2. West Dorset	27
3. Portsmouth	30
4. S. W. Hants & Southampton	69
5. Winchester	70
6. Basingstoke	51
7. Salisbury	68
8. Swindon	59
9. West Wilts and Bath	80
10. Isle of Wight	69
10. Oxford	125

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	Number of persons treated by district nurses Per 1,000 population
1. East Berkshire	85
2. West Berkshire	110
3. Aylesbury	243
4. Wycombe	69
5. Milton Keynes	132
6. Kettering	215
7. Northampton	213
8. Oxford	59
11. Southwestern	52
1. Bristol and Weston	42
2. Frenchay	25
3. Southmead	37
4. Cornwall & Isle of Scilly	41
5. Exeter	42
6. North Devon	35
7. Plymouth	51
8. Torbay	65
9. Cheltenham	40
10. Gloucester	65
11. Somerset	95
12. West Midlands	55
1. Bromsgrove and Redditch	37
2. Herefordshire	61
3. Kidderminster	141
4. Worcester	44
5. Shropshire	47
6. Mid Staffordshire	24
7. North Staffordshire	36
8. South East Staffordshire	34
9. Rugby	35
10. North Warwickshire	43
11. South Warwickshire	32
12. Birmingham Central	51
13. Birmingham East	80
14. Birmingham North	116
15. Birmingham South	57
16. Birmingham West	103
17. Coventry	39
18. Dudley	40
19. Sandwell	72
20. Solihull	53
21. Walsall	106
22. Wolverhampton	40
13. Mersey	75
1. Chester	60
2. Crewe	74
3. Halton	99
4. Macclesfield	116
5. Warrington	131
6. Liverpool	73
7. St. Helens and Knowsley	57
8. Southport and Formby	91
9. South Sefton	39
10. Wirral	58
14. Northwestern	100
1. Lancaster	103
2. Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde	111
3. Preston	118
4. Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley	295
5. Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale	154
6. West Lancashire	129
7. Chorley and South Ribble	69
8. Bolton	69
9. Bury	187
10. Manchester North	46
11. Manchester Central	37
12. Manchester South	52
13. Oldham	70
14. Rochdale	82
15. Salford	83
16. Stockport	69

143W

	Number of persons treated by district nurses Per 1,000 population
17. Tameside and Glossop	56
18. Trafford	61
19. Wigan	76

Source: DHSS form LHS 27/3

OPCS

Benefit	Date	Recipients who are women	Recipients who are lone parents
		Number	Percentage of all recipients	Number	Percentage of all recipients
Retirement Pension	September 1987	6,352,000	65.3	n/a	n/a
Widows' Benefits	September 1987	367,000	100	54,000	14.7
Maternity Allowance	March 1987	332,000	100	n/a	n/a
Invalidity Benefit	April 1987	214,000	22.1	n/a	n/a
Sickness Benefit	April 1987	26,000	23.6	n/a	n/a
Unemployment Benefit	November 1987	250,000	370.	n/a	n/a
Supplementary Benefit	May 1987	2,537,000	51.8	664,000	13.6
Family Income Supplement	April 1987	91,000	41	92,000	42
Housing Benefit	Autumn 1985	n/a	n/a	¹630,000	¹8.8
n/a—not available.
¹ subject to revision.