§ Mr. CousinsTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the cost per head in each health region of(a) in-patient treatments of mental illness, (b) out-patient and
Expenditure per head per annum of resident population Region Hospital services—psychiatric other than mental handicap General Practitioner Patients using a bed £ Outpatients £ Day care £ prescribing £ Northern 17.98 1.21 1.34 1.85 Yorkshire 15.77 1.03 1.38 1.80 Trent 16.06 0.81 1.17 1.36 East Anglian 15.81 1.20 1.39 1.17 North West Thames 21.85 1.54 1.02 1.27 North East Thames 20.70 2.03 1.39 1.21 South East Thames 18.45 0.80 1.19 1.33 South West Thames 20.50 1.04 1.10 1.40 Wessex 15.04 0.36 1.14 1.43 Oxford 11.47 0.90 1.23 1.03 South Western 14.86 0.62 1.14 1.55 West Midlands 14.69 0.87 1.02 1.42 Mersey 22.21 0.93 1.23 1.69 North Western 18.61 1.17 1.94 1.82 Sources:
(a) Hospital services—1988–89 financial returns submitted to the Department by district health authorities in England.
(b) General Practitioner prescribing—prescription cost analysis by the Department for 1989 (calendar year).
(c) Mid year estimates of resident populations 1988—Office of Population, Censuses and Surveys.
248Wday care treatment of mental illness and (c) general practitioner-prescribed prescription costs for treatments of stress, anxiety and depression.
§ Mr. Dorrell[holding answer 11 December 1990]: The latest available expenditure data are shown in the table.