§ Mr. AshleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if he will list the National Health Service provision, excluding boards of governors and special health authorities, that is currently funded, completely or partly, directly by his Department;
(2) if he will list the services, now funded by districts, which were started in the National Health Service with either direct central or supra-regional funding;
(3) if he will list the National Health Service provision, excluding boards of governors and special health authorities, that has been funded completely or partly by direct central funding in the last 10 years.
§ Mr. FreemanThe services for which revenue funding has been specifically provided to regional health
authorities in 1988–89 are:
- Waiting Lists and Times
- AIDS
- Breast Cancer Screening
- Measles Mumps and Rubella Vaccine
- Services for Drug Misusers
- Supra Regional Services:
- Spinal Units
- Cranio-facial Services
- Liver Transplants
- Chorion-carcinoma Services
- National Poisons Information Unit
- Neonatal and Infant Cardiac Surgery
- Specialised Liver Services
- Heat Transplantation (including Heart and Lung Transplants)
- Endoprosthetic Services for Primary Bone Tumours
- Psychiatric Services for Deaf People
- United Kingdom Transplant Service
- Quality Assessment of Clinical Laboratories
- Health Authority Central Fund (1)
- Portman and Tavistock Clinics
- London Emergency Helicopter Service.
Other services funded in this way since 1983–84 are as follows. Information for previous years is not readily available.
- Local Dental Health Survey and Education Programme
- Psychiatric Rehabilitation
- Renal Services Expansion
- Transplant Advisors: Kidney Donors
- Rural Practice Payments for Dispensing
- Hearing Aids
- Cervical Cytology Kits
- Community Medicine Register.
Note: Each year the Department reserves centrally a small proportion of resources to fund developments in the hospital and community health services where central intervention is considered both desirable and cost effective; for example, specialised new activities arising from research which needs to be tried under central oversight.
§ Mr. AshleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the National Health Service services which receive supra-regional funding.
§ Mr. FreemanThe following services have received supra-regional funding in 1988–89 and will continue to do so in 1989–90:
- Chorioncarcinoma Services
- Craniofacial Services
- Endoprosthetic Services for Primary Bone Tumours
- Heart Transplantation (including Heart and Lung Transplantation)
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- National Poisons Information Services
- Neonatal and Infant Cardiac Surgery
- Psychiatric Services for Deaf People
- Specialised Liver Services
- Spinal Injury Services