§ Mr. BoyesTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give the average annual expenditure per patient in 1986–87 by(a) the Northern regional health authority and (b) Sunderland district health authority.
§ Mr. Newton[holding answer 24 March 1988]For patient treatment costing purposes all hospitals are classified into a series of standard types which reflect the principal use to which their beds are allocated and an overall average cost or expenditure per patient is thus not determined.
In terms of 1986–87 per capita expenditure (that is, total revenue expenditure on hospital and community health services, etc. per head of resident population) the figure for Sunderland health authority (£206) is typical of the overall average for all sixteen district health authorities within the northern region (£208).