§ Mr. Tim SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the per capita prescribing cost for each family practitioner committee in England and Wales in 1987–88.
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§ Mr. MellorThe information relating to Wales is a matter for my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales. The net ingredient cost per capita of prescriptions dispensed by community pharmacists, appliance contractors and dispensing doctors for each family practitioner committee in England in 1987 was as follows:
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F.P.C. Average NIC per person £ Avon 31.27 Barking and Havering 32.08 Barnet 30.80 Barnsley 40.78 Bedfordshire 31.60 Berkshire 30.66 Bexley and Greenwich 29.69 Birmingham 38.34 Bolton 34.84 Bradford 35.20 Brent and Harrow 32.76 Bromley 30.31 Buckinghamshire 30.05 Bury 41.44 Calderdale 37.33 Cambridgeshire 30.73 Camden and Islington 31.36 Cheshire 35.41 City, Hackney, Newham and Tower Hamlets 34.11 Cleveland 38.59 Cornwall 37.75 Coventry 35.68 Croydon 29.87 Cumbria 36.65 Derbyshire 32.96 Devon 35.58 Doncaster 38.21 Dorset 39.31 Dudley 31.64 Durham 38.19 Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow 31.87 East Sussex 37.96 Enfield and Haringey 29.96 Essex 32.15 Gateshead 37.00 Gloucestershire 29.74 Hampshire 32.53 Hereford and Worcester 31.66 Hertfordshire 31.03 Hillingdon 31.65 Humberside 37.35 Isle of Wight 40.53 Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster 37.13 Kent 34.17 Kingston and Richmond 32.97 Kirklees 32.81 Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark 31.27 Lancashire 40.65 Leeds 36.05 Leicestershire 32.58 Lincolnshire 38.08 Liverpool 40.08 Manchester 37.84 Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth 31.79 Newcastle-upon-Tyne 36.99 Norfolk 35.67 North Tyneside 44.66 North Yorkshire 33.94 Northamptonshire 30.96 Northumberland 36.37 Nottinghamshire 31.16 Oldham 35.60 Oxfordshire 28.94 Redbridge and Waltham Forest 34.39 Rochdale 38.21 Rotherham 34.17 Salford 44.22 Salop 33.10
F.P.C. Average NIC per person £ Sandwell 39.41 Sefton 36.72 Sheffield 34.79 Solihull 34.73 Somerset 33.68 South Tyneside 37.62 St. Helens with Knowsley 36.58 Staffordshire 33.56 Stockport 36.92 Suffolk 33.02 Sunderland 41.15 Surrey 31.16 Tameside 37.26 Trafford 40.92 Wakefield 38.90 Walsall 39.35 Warwickshire 34.13 West Sussex 36.66 Wigan 39.90 Wiltshire 31.04 Wirral 40.09 Wolverhampton 37.98
§ Mr. Tim SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what information is available about per capita prescribing costs for individual general practitioners or general practitioner practices.
§ Mr. MellorA prescribing information system, known as PACT, provides GPs within a practice with information on the number of items per patient and the average cost per patient for their practice, compared with the FPC average. The practice average is calculated using the number of patients on the practice list.