§ Mr. ConwayTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give the average annual expenditure per patient in 1986–87 by Shropshire health authority.
§ Mr. Newton[holding answer 23 February 1988]: For 1986–87, hospital costing returns submitted by the Shropshire health authority show average costs per patient treated as follows:
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Hospital In-patients Out-patients A and E patients Day patients Day cases 4£ 5£ 6£ 7£ 6£ 7£ 6£ 7£ 6£ Type Acute 1–50 beds 42.82 619.16 18.28 58.35 11.31 18.26 1n.a. n.a. 1n.a. Acute over 300 beds 87.75 562.98 31.57 112.12 26.37 27.39 1n.a. n.a. 1n.a. Mainly acute 50.45 557.84 15.64 35.13 12.77 19.89 1n.a. n.a. 1n.a. Partly acute 52.01 708.39 18.95 49.29 1n.a. n.a. 26.50 939.98 n.a. Mainly long stay 38.76 2— 15.36 47.34 10.25 14 .87 1n.a. n.a. 1n.a. Long stay 69.40 2— 1n.a. n.a. 1n.a. n.a. 1n.a. n.a. 1n.a. Geriatric 36.61 2— 1n.a. n.a. 1n.a. n.a. 1n.a. n.a. 1n.a. Mental illness 42.56 2— 1n.a. n.a. 1n.a. n.a. 22.20 2,886.35 1n.a. 1 No patients of this type were treated during the year. 2 Average costs per in-patient case in respect of hospitals providing long-stay treatment are not routinely calculated. 3 "Other hospitals" (hospitals not clearly falling into any of the standard types) have been excluded: average costs are not calculated for such hospitals. 4 Cost per I/P day. 5 Cost per case. 6 Cost per attendance. 7 Cost per new case.