HC Deb 15 March 1994 vol 239 cc560-2W
Mr. Redmond

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will require NHS health trusts to open their meetings to the public.

Dr. Mawhinney

No. In accordance with the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990, NHS trusts are required to have one public meeting per year. Many NHS trusts have developed substantial programmes of public meetings and regular meetings with community health councils.

Mr. Ainger

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list those English national health service trusts which in 1992–93 exceeded their external financing limit; and by how much in each case.

Mr. Sackville

The NHS trusts which exceeded their external financing limit in 1992–93, and the amount by which they did so, are shown in the table. These trusts have had their 1993–94 EFL reduced by the amount of the 1992–93 excess.

Trust Amount by which EFL exceeded £'000
Airedale NHS Trust 4
Bath Mental Health Care NHS Trust 1
Central Manchester Healthcare NHS Trust 6
Dacorum and St. Albans Community NHS Trust 141
Devon Ambulance Service NHS Trust 4
Doncaster Healthcare NHS Trust 2
Eastbourne Hospitals NHS Trust 3
East Hertfordshire Health NHS Trust 2
Epsom Health Care NHS Trust 2
First Community NHS Trust 1
Guy's and Lewisham NHS Trust 37
Homewood NHS Trust 3
Milton Keynes Community Health NHS Trust 47
Mulberry NHS Trust 4
Northern General Hospital NHS Trust 4
North Hertfordshire NHS Trust 4
North Middlesex Hospital NHS Trust 1
Optimum Health Services NHS Trust 161
Ravensbourne Priority Health NHS Trust 30
Royal United Hospital, Bath NHS Trust 27
South Downs Health NHS Trust 35
The Cardiothoracic Centre Liverpool NHS Trust 1
The Walton Centre for Neurology and Neurosurgery NHS Trust 1
Walsall Hospitals NHS Trust 4
Walsgrave Hospital NHS Trust 5
Wellhouse NHS Trust 22
West Dorset General Hospitals NHS Trust 20
Weston Area Health NHS Trust 2
Weybourne Community NHS Trust 2

Source: NHS Trust Annual Accounts.

Mr. Ainger

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list those English national health service trusts which in 1992–93 failed to achieve a 6 per cent. return on capital in(a) percentage terms and (b) cash terms.

Mr. Sackville

The information requested is as follows.

Return on capital employed
Trust Amount £ thousands Percentage
Airedale NHS Trust 2,128 4.00
Allington NHS Trust 127 2.40
Anglian Harbours Health NHS Trust 979 5.90
Barnsley Community and Priority Services NHS Trust 1,512 5.70
Bedford Hospitals NHS Trust 1,633 5.80
Bradford Community Health NHS Trust 1,635 5.20
Bradford Hospitals NHS Trust 2,392 5.67
Broadgreen Hospital NHS Trust1 -3,783 -6.20
Central Manchester Healthcare NHS Trust 7,723 5.80
Chester and Halton Community NHS Trust 205 5.70
Christie Hospital NHS Trust 531 3.00
Devon Ambulance Service NHS Trust 77 1.50
Ealing Hospital NHS Trust 914 2.80
East Hertfordshire Health NHS Trust 2,319 5.10
Eastbourne Hospitals NHS Trust 3,025 4.80
Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust 1,601 5.85
Liverpool Obstetrics and Gynaecology Services NHS Trust -925 -14.40
Mersey Regional Ambulance Service NHS Trust 482 3.30
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Trust 881 2.80
Milton Keynes General Hospital NHS Trust 2,846 5.75
Mount Vernon Hospital NHS Trust 1,594 4.60
North East Essex Mental Health NHS Trust 1,059 5.60
Newcastle Mental Health Services NHS Trust 1,369 4.70
Norfolk Ambulance NHS Trust 224 4.50
Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust 1,817 5.00
North Hertfordshire NHS Trust 2,572 4.40
North Tees Health NHS Trust 2,493 5.60
Northumbria Ambulance Service NHS Trust 555 5.30
Nottingham City Hospital NHS Trust 4,620 4.80
Nottingham Community Health NHS Trust 563 4.40
Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital NHS Trust 630 5.10
Royal United Hospital, Bath NHS Trust 2,864 4.00
South Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance and Paramedic Service NHS Trust 333 5.00
Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Healthcare NHS Trust 1,641 3.70
South Bedfordshire Community Healthcare NHS Trust 46 0.50
Southend Health Care NHS Trust 2,744 5.10
Southport and Formby NHS Trust 2,107 4.60
St. Helen's and Knowsley Hospital NHS Trust 332 5.20
St. James's University Hospital NHS Trust 2,778 4.60
St. Peter's Hospital NHS Trust 2,053 4.80
The Poole Hospital NHS Trust 2,245 5.80
The Royal Cornwall Hospitals and West Cornwall Hospital NHS Trust 3,322 5.68
The Royal Liverpool University Hospital NHS Trust 2,100 2.20
The Royal Surrey County and St. Luke's NHS Trust 806 1.78
The United Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust 5,870 5.50
United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust 6,673 4.40
Walsgrave Hospital NHS Trust 2,615 4.50
Wellhouse NHS Trust 2,089 2.47
West Dorset Community Health NHS Trust 691 4.60
West Dorset General Hospitals NHS Trust 2,042 5.60
West Dorset Mental Health NHS Trust 407 5.00
1 I regret that this trust was omitted in error from the list supplied in the reply that I gave the hon. Member on 8 March at columns 163–64.

Source: NHS trust annual accounts.

Mr. Ainger

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will list those NHS trusts which in 1992–93 failed to break even; and by how much in each case.

Mr. Sackville

The national health service trusts which had a deficit of income over expenditure in 1992–93 and the amounts of those deficits are:

£000
Trust Amount of deficit
Airedale NHS Trust 577
Allington NHS Trust 82
Anglian Harbours Health NHS Trust 165
Bradford Hospitals NHS Trust 1,312
Broadgreen Hospital NHS Trust 3,783
Christie Hospital NHS Trust 321
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Mental Handicap NHS Trust 186
Cleveland Ambulance NHS Trust 141
Devon Ambulance Service NHS Trust 134
Ealing Hospital NHS Trust 594
Hillingdon Community Health NHS Trust 32
Liverpool Obstetrics and Gynaecology Services NHS Trust 1,006
Mersey Regional Ambulance Service NHS Trust 153
North East Essex Mental Health NHS Trust 264
Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital NHS Trust 113
Royal United Hospital, Bath NHS Trust 767
Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Healthcare NHS Trust 528
South Bedfordshire Community Healthcare NHS Trust 18
Southport and Formby NHS Trust 347
St. James's University Hospital NHS Trust 521
St. Peters Hospital NHS Trust 119
The Royal Liverpool University Hospital NHS Trust 2,097
The Royal Surrey County and St. Lukes NHS Trust 1,215
Wellhouse NHS Trust 1,735
West Dorset Mental Health NHS Trust 22

Source:

NHS trust annual accounts.

Mr. Ainger

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS trusts were operating in the 1992–93 financial year.

Mr. Sackville

One hundred and fifty-six.

Mr. Milburn

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many trusts(a) met and (b) failed to achieve a 6 per cent. return on assets.

Dr. Mawhinney

[pursuant to his reply, 29 November 1993, c. 305]: I regret that my previous reply contained an error. The number of trusts which have made a pre-interest rate of return of less than 6 per cent. is 51.

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