HC Deb 13 March 1992 vol 205 cc752-6W
Mrs. Mahon

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the total amount charged by each health authority for treatment given to patients following road traffic accidents for each of the last 10 years; and if he will give the comparable figures for NHS trusts.

Mr. Dorrell

[holding answer 14 February 1992]: The information requested, which is derived from annual accounts submitted to the Department, is shown in the tables for the financial years to 1990–91—the latest available. Such information is not collected in-year.

Table 1 shows the figures for the 10 years by region and table 2 for each health authority for the most recent three years. A complete analysis to each health authority for the entire 10-year period could be provided only at disproportionate cost.

Table 2
Income from charges under the Road Traffic Acts
1988–89 (£) 1989–90 (£) 1990–91 (£)
Northern Region
Hartlepool 10,779 18,973 21,645
North Tees 17,948 21,272 22,311
South Tees 27,630 47,551 34,229
East Cumbria 39,031 45,766 51,260
South Cumbria 28,259 29,854 37,415
West Cumbria 12,349 13,135 11,410
Darlington 10,209 10,238 14,161
Durham 26,503 30,837 29,808
North West Durham 6,826 21,562 16,017
South West Durham 22,965 13,040 25,609
Northumberland 20,434 44,926 42,923
Gateshead 10,734 12,570 10,517
Newcastle 129,785 36,664 36,495
North Tyneside 11,842 8,794 12,052
South Tyneside 9,121 8,436 5,702
Sunderland 12,215 19,952 18,269
Total 396,630 383,570 389,823
Yorkshire Region
Hull 153,110 125,621 152,581
East Yorkshire 5,148 4,302 4,350
Grimsby 20,682 31,113 37,678
Scunthorpe 13,499 17,120 28,640
Northallerton 24,201 15,932 12,925
York 26,556 38,971 31,291
Scarborough 33,488 34,655 55,701
Harrogate 27,745 30,428 28,731
Bradford 47,252 66,756 50,563
Airedale 29,637 37,418 57,086
Calderdale 37,74! 25,640 35,644
Huddersfield 66,754 35,713 30,219
Dewsbury 28,108 38,417 41,807
Leeds Western 78,784 57,920 38,736
Leeds Eastern 117,071 80,582 90,796
Wakefield 26,002 19,155 33,125
Pontefract 15,694 19,835 13,731
Total 751,472 679,578 743,604
Trent Region
North Derbyshire 63,128 39,661 56,000
South Derbyshire 137,672 138,300 108,772
Leicestershire 172,495 79,819 140,508
North Lincolnshire 87,372 74,019 134,055
South Lincolnshire 108,796 107,585 131,640
Bassetlaw 11,172 15,307 19,860
Central Notts 61,453 61,481 55,035
Nottingham 123,754 133,736 98,694
Barnsley 21,357 48,687 30,990
Doncaster 81,221 104,048 108,534
Rotherham 50,955 44,696 65,161
Sheffield 85,881 84,061 44,535
Total 1,005,256 931,400 993,784
East Anglian Region
Cambridge 46,271 138,388 86,301
Peterborough 47,584 109,887 89,459
West Suffolk 37,573 49,872 42,756
East Suffolk 43,814 36,469 31,302
Norwich 190,102 204,360 213,959
Great Yarmouth and Waveney 28,721 75,331 41,905
West Norfolk and Wisbech 95,884 73,973 92,552
Huntingdon 23,649 28,080 26,962
Total 513,598 716,360 625,196
North West Thames Region
North Bedfordshire 80,820 86,996 46,780
South Bedfordshire 53,266 74,524 68,648
North Hertfordshire 41,081 47,942 12,698

1988–89 (£) 1989–90 (£) 1990–91 (£)
East Hertfordshire 4,405 20,174 17,618
North West Hertfordshire 58,989 59,945 37,027
South West Hertfordshire 20,935 25,478 16,912
Barnet 24,425 33,575 22,299
Harrow 10,547 5,328 10,747
Hillingdon 55,837 40,118 32,498
Hounslow and Spelthorne 71,732 71,828 51,160
Ealing 10,084 (6,191) 10,109
Riverside 1,815 3,529 2,837
Parkside 4,374 4,170 4,162
Total 438,310 467,416 333,495
North East Thames Region
Basildon and Thurrock 20,987 15,315 15,306
Mid Essex 97,613 67,113 89,729
North East Essex 13,281 33,168 28,039
West Essex 54,092 36,825 23,204
Southend 32,672 13,939 24,717
Barking, Havering and Brentwood 55,163 79,143 56,546
Hampstead 23,128 24,431 23,913
City and Hackney 7,639 28,122 12,120
Newham 36,878 25,319 43,134
Tower Hamlets 27,326 2,601 26,073
Enfield 7,647 5,860 16,137
Haringey 1,683 1,848 2,537
Redbridge 8,909 4,901 16,064
Waltham Forest 16,470 35,507 29,963
Bloomsbury and Islington 26,787 17,104 10,067
Total 430,275 391,196 417,549
South East Thames Region
Brighton 36,344 29,647 29,915
Eastbourne 59,396 36,938 55.990
Hastings 7,102 8,201 8,926
South East Kent 21,307 28,065 49.105
Canterbury and Thanet 95,067 95,510 76.468
Dartford and Gravesham 32,325 54,094 21.810
Maidstone 28,501 5,892 26,755
Medway 35,357 54,143 124,693
Tunbridge Wells 95,992 44,651 71,635
Bexley 24,187 (9,522) 7,358
Greenwich 15,015 15,585 10,575
Bromley 27,992 5,402 16,606
West Lambeth 30,925 10,674 570
Camberwell 734 5,916 (7,260)
Lewisham and North Southwark 2,609 6,241 14,304
Total 512,853 391,437 507,450
South West Thames Region
North West Surrey 23,458 14,503 21,760
West Surrey and North East Hampshire 32,032 26,611 39,082
South West Surrey 54,672 20,440 44,572
Mid Surrey 16,443 740 8,715
East Surrey 12,679 14,674 12,754
Chichester 60,350 49,988 60,201
Mid Downs 60,609 71,512 90,627
Worthing 190,269 233,194 (17,151)
Croydon 15,465 69,794 32,204
Kingston and Esher 10,042 38,429 40,102
Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton (623) 930 (804)
Wandsworth 7,898 2,895 4,963
Merton and Sutton 33,875 29,760 32,068
Total 517,169 573,470 211,093

1988–89 (£) 1989–90 (£) 1990–91 (£)
Wessex Region
East Dorset 121,668 107,252 150,008
West Dorset 27,559 33,077 28,386
Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 114,425 112,389 121,614
Southampton and South West Hampshire 151,657 171,367 164,717
Winchester 85,145 80,716 92,925
Basingstoke 71,611 44,390 99,669
Salisbury 84,498 119,673 113,194
Swindon 59,130 70,023 58,485
Bath 109,021 104,188 212,102
Isle of Wight 11,624 17,524 36,046
Total 836,338 860,599 1,077,146
Oxford Region
East Berkshire 43,424 87,948 54,094
West Berkshire 100,400 100,611 142,669
Aylesbury 49,064 57,278 54,586
Wycombe 46,800 64,532 21,031
Milton Keynes 24,752 20,647 18,260
Kettering 62,696 116,378 69,867
Northampton 61,946 69,051 55,119
Oxfordshire 144,844 212,922 248,941
Total 533,926 729,367 664,567
South Western Region
Bristol and Weston 71,158 178,126 101,851
Frenchay 35,647 122,324 79,091
Southmead 40,030 33,196 29,645
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 121,422 140,566 120,609
Exeter 106,093 99,823 109,024
North Devon 21,775 18,317 19,311
Plymouth 83,094 79,930 81,415
Torbay 67,092 55,320 60,506
Cheltenham 37,104 16,218 22,466
Gloucester 42,902 38,907 36,811
Somerset 93,116 107,007 80,012
Total 719,433 889,734 740,741
West Midlands Region
Bromsgrove and Redditch 14,559 11,200 19,453
Herefordshire 10,657 23,033 28,517
Kidderminster 26,017 24,717 19,991
Worcester 15,720 32,890 17,955
Shropshire 166,282 161,089 153,432
Mid Staffordshire 25,500 31,674 28,908
North Staffordshire 150,086 131,227 90,594
South East Staffordshire 35,257 92,865 41,077
Rugby 20,813 24,222 52,406
North Warwickshire 37,985 34,173 17,277
South Warwickshire 23,730 20,974 28,442
Central Birmingham 21,679 6,124 47,317
East Birmingham 37,770 43,996 67,506
North Birmingham 27,792 39,839 31,773
South Birmingham 84,783 98,091 75,284
West Birmingham 6,539 5,343 4,350
Coventry 36,022 32,774 35,276
Dudley 59,849 65,359 80,807
Sandwell 14,041 30,883 25,976
Solihull 16,657 10,161 8,533
Walsall 51,118 36,567 43,685
Wolverhampton 46,439 82,686 50,900
Total 929,295 1,039,887 969,459
Mersey Region
Chester 60,056 69,636 86,583
Crewe 62,641 91,408 74,816
Halton 1,605 2,927 3,493
Macclesfield 14,475 16,224 31,067
Warrington 40,127 18,792 59,658

1988–89 (£) 1989–90 (£) 1990–91 (£)
Liverpool 53,831 88,046 143,966
St. Helens and Knowsley 14,028 20,060 31,466
Southport and Formby 13,979 8,018 12,967
South Sefton 65,363 83,329 105,334
Wirral 80,564 121,217 74,492
Total 406,669 519,657 623,842
North Western Region
Lancaster 24,361 28,694 19,253
Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde 33,991 28,575 26,962
Preston 64,692 67,831 50,448
Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley 29,764 24,677 42,611
Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale 49,985 48,386 45,247
West Lanchashire 37,224 37,274 43,768
Chorley and South Ribble 6,820 8,502 10,352
Bolton 31,775 30,248 35,816
Bury 12,212 12,488 13,334
North Manchester 40,150 20,856 28,968
Central Manchester 43,440 58,256 59,019
South Manchester 45,720 62,781 55,148
Oldham 35,224 19,351 19,910
Rochdale 51,859 19,592 29,064
Salford 81,598 35,670 38,929
Stockport 89,610 77,476 82,642
Tameside and Glossop 30,981 28,699 51,028
Trafford 11,722 12,186 12,477
Wigan 31,587 58,882 114,267
Total 752,715 680,424 779,243
Hospitals for Sick Children 15 14 22
Hammersmith and Queen Charlottes Hospital 4,369 2,246 2,855
S.H.As Total 4,384 2,260 2,877
England Total 8,748,323 9,256,355 9,079,869

Source: Annual accounts of district health authorities in England and those of the special health authorities for the London post-graduate teaching hospitals. (Predecessor authorities for 1981–82).

Notes:

1. The annual figures are for total income from charges for emergency and further treatment under the Road Traffic Acts (RTA) and represent sums due for the financial year but not necessarily received.

2. The figures also reflect accounting adjustments and RTA charges written-off as bad debts in the year of account. Such adjustments and write-offs include RTA sums due from earlier years and a negative income figure may occasionally result for a particular year (figures shown in brackets in the tables).

3. The annual accounts of the fourteen regionl health authorities (RHAs) in England and six of the eight special health authorities (SHAs) for the London post-graduate teaching hospitals record no income from RTA in the period 1988–89 to 1990–91 and are omitted from table 2.