§ Mr. CousinsTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the expenditure per head of population on general practitioner prescribed anti-depressant drugs in each NHS region and family health service authority area for the second half of 1991; and what were the corresponding figures for equivalent periods in 1988, 1989 and 1990.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyInformation for 1991 is not yet available. The figures for 1988, 1989 and 1990 are given in the table.
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Anti-depressants Cost per head of population FHSA Regional health authority 1988 £ 1989 £ 1990 £ Cleveland 0.90 1.04 1.16 Cumbria 0.88 1.15 1.02 Durham 1.09 0.97 1.13 Northumberland 0.98 0.93 0.85 Gateshead 0.83 1.11 1.37 Newcastle 1.00 1.13 1.29 North Tyneside 1.00 1.00 1.37 South Tyneside 0.79 0.89 1.02 Sunderland 0.66 0.71 0.82 Northern regional health authority 0.92 1.00 1.10 Humberside 0.71 0.83 0.87 North Yorkshire 0.64 0.88 0.81 Bradford 0.80 1.02 0.95 Calderdale 0.87 0.76 1.17 Kirklees 0.70 0.76 1.17 Leeds 1.04 1.41 1.17 Wakefield 0.77 0.81 1.30 Yorkshire regional health authority 0.79 0.97 1.01 Derbyshire 0.63 0.70 0.82 Leicester 0.69 0.65 0.84 Lincoln 0.67 0.70 0.71 Nottinghamshire 0.56 0.60 0.72 Barnsley 0.55 0.94 1.14 Doncaster 0.65 0.74 0.84 Rotherham 0.74 0.86 0.88 Sheffield 0.83 0.86 0.90 Trent regional health authority 0.66 0.71 0.82 Cambridgeshire 0.42 0.50 0.81 Norfolk 0.60 0.72 0.93 Suffolk 0.67 0.83 0.79 East Anglia RHA 0.56 0.69 0.85 Bedford 0.49 0.59 0.84 Hertfordshire 0.60 0.61 0.82 Barnet 0.52 0.56 0.69 Brent and Harrow 0.56 0.44 0.56 Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow 0.45 0.64 0.87 Hillingdon 0.63 0.72 0.72 Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster 0.64 0.84 1.09 North West Thames RHA 0.55 0.61 0.80 Essex 0.57 0.62 0.76 Barking and Havering 0.54 0.59 0.60 Camden and Islington 1.04 0.68 0.92 City and East London 0.50 0.63 0.78 Enfield and Harringey 0.67 0.52 0.49 466W
FHSA Regional health authority 1988 £ 1989 £ 1990 £ Redbridge and Waltham Forest 0.42 0.69 0.78 North East Thames RHA 0.59 0.62 0.73 East Sussex 0.65 0.77 0.95 Kent 0.64 0.75 0.82 Bexley and Greenwich 0.41 0.51 0.47 Bromley 0.61 0.60 1.00 Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark 0.62 0.62 0.71 South East Thames RHA 0.61 0.69 0.80 Surrey 0.69 0.81 0.81 West Sussex 0.61 0.56 0.89 Croydon 0.76 0.88 0.69 Kingston and Richmond 0.71 0.70 0.88 Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth 0.61 0.70 0.78 South West Thames RHA 0.66 0.72 0.82 Dorset 0.80 0.83 0.91 Hampshire 0.73 0.75 0.90 Wiltshire 0.74 0.95 0.95 Isle of Wight 0.89 0.91 0.80 Wessex RHA 0.75 0.81 0.91 Berkshire 0.64 0.58 0.72 Buckinghamshire 0.59 0.55 0.54 Northamptonshire 0.53 0.57 0.63 Oxfordshire 0.41 0.42 0.57 Oxford RHA 0.55 0.53 0.62 Avon 0.58 0.74 0.80 Cornwall 0.47 0.70 0.79 Devon 0.69 0.81 0.92 Gloucester 0.74 0.76 0.96 Somerset 0.65 0.83 0.69 South Western RHA 0.63 0.77 0.84 Hereford and Worcester 0.67 0.78 0.95 Salop 0.65 0.61 0.89 Staffordshire 0.63 0.56 0.79 Warwickshire 0.61 0.58 0.70 Birmingham 0.72 0.79 0.88 Coventry 0.55 0.74 0.80 Dudley 0.58 0.73 0.68 Sandwell 0.77 1.06 1.13 Solihull 0.81 0.66 1.17 Walsall 0.82 0.91 1.10 Wolverhampton 0.70 0.87 1.01 West Midlands RHA 0.67 0.72 0.88 Cheshire 0.72 0.74 0.80 Liverpool 0.69 0.86 1.08 St. Helens and Knowsley 0.52 0.65 0.92 Sefton 0.60 0.90 1.13 Wirral 0.87 1.00 1.05 Mersey RHA 0.69 0.81 0.95 Lancashire 0.80 0.79 0.94 Bolton 0.70 0.61 0.81 Bury 0.89 0.70 1.32 Manchester 1.02 0.91 1.13 Oldham 0.45 0.57 0.83 Rochdale 1.22 1.33 1.16 Salford 0.96 1.33 1.35 Stockport 1.01 0.97 1.20 Tameside 0.54 0.72 1.21 Trafford 0.98 1.17 1.42 Wigan 0.91 0.95 1.17 North Western RHA 0.86 0.88 1.08
FHSA Regional health authority 1988 £ 1989 £ 1990 £ England 0.68 0.75 0.88 Note: The data are estimates based on a sample of prescriptions of 1 in 200 dispensed by chemists in England. The population figures used are based on the OPCS estimates of residential population for the appropriate mid-year.