§ Mr. HoyleTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make it her policy to collect centrally information on the amount of over or under-spending and the throughput of patients in each of the last five years of major general hospitals in each region.
§ Mr. SackvilleThere are no current plans to require this information to be collected centrally.
§ Mr. HoyleTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list(a) the amount of over and under-spending in each of the last five years and (b) the throughput of patients over each of the last five years in the Warrington health authority.
§ Mr. SackvilleThe information about over and under spending is not held centrally. The hon. Member may wish to contact Mr. D. Hannah, the chairman of Warrington health authority, for details.
The information requested on throughput of patients is given in the table.
Throughput of patients (patients treated per available bed):Warrington Health Authority Cases treated Available beds Throughput 1986 128,228 2,434 12 1987–88 130,330 2,180 14 1988–89 30,334 2,056 15 1989–90 32,300 1,797 18 1990–91 234,023 1,532 22 Source: SH3, KH03, KP70.
1 The figures for 1986/1987–88 have been converted from the old measurement of discharges and deaths into the present measurement of finished consultant episodes. During 1988–89, information on patient cases treated was collected on both bases to facilitate this conversion.2 The figures for 1990–91 are provisional.