§ Mr. CousinsTo ask the Secretary of State for Health whether, pursuant to the answer, 18 December,Official Report, column 81–82, he will state (a) the average, and (b) the range of expenditure per patient in each family practitioner committee area of the Northern health region for two previous quarters to the one ended June to August 1989.
§ Mr. FreemanInformation about individual patients is not collected. The range of expenditure per patient in each family practitioner committee area is available only on a general practitioner practice basis and by basic price of prescriptions. Basic price takes no account of discount, dispensing costs or fees and therefore does not represent actual expenditure. The information that is available on this basis is set out in the tables:
663W2. The figures are net ingredient cost (basic price) of prescriptions dispensed in response to prescriptions written by practices within the family practitioner committee. They take no account of discount, dispensing costs or fees and therefore do not represent actual expenditure.
3. The family practitioner committees are divided into three streams for reporting purposes. Each stream has a different quarterly cycle. Aggregated annual data is not available.