Family Health Services (Hansard, 24 January 1995)

HC Deb 24 January 1995 vol 253 c177W 177W

§ Mrs. Beckett
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will give for each year since 1974–75 total spending on family health services for each NHS region and for the special health authorities(a) in cash terms, (b) adjusted using the GDP deflator and (c) adjusted using the NHS pay and prices index.

§ Mr. Sackville
[holding answer 16 January 1995]: A regional breakdown of all family health services expenditure from 1992–93 will be placed in the Library. Regional figures for earlier years are not readily available on a comparable basis but national totals of FHS expenditure from 1974–75 will also be placed in the Library. Figures have been adjusted to 1993–94 prices using the GDP deflator. The only available FHS inflation index is based on costs in the non-cash-limited part of the FHS and is not applicable to these figures which incorporate both cash-limited and non-cash-limited FHS expenditure. Special health authorities do not incur expenditure on family health services.

§ Mrs. Beckett
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will give for each financial year since 1989–90 the numbers of day case admissions to NHS hospitals in England recorded in(a) the hospital episode system and (b) the NHS Executive's fast-track monitoring returns for (i) acute specialties, (ii) geriatrics, (iii) mental illness, (iv) mental handicap, (v) maternity, (vi) well babies and (vii) all specialties.

§ Mr. Sackville
[holding answer 16 January 1995]: The number of day case admissions for each speciality group from the hospital episode statistics system for each financial year 1988–89 to 1992–93 is given in the annual publication "Hospital Episode Statistics, England", copies of which are available in the Library.
The National Health Service Executive's fast-track monitoring returns are used to produce provisional forecasts which are not routinely published. The final definitive figures of day case admission in NHS hospitals are published in "Ordinary and Day Case Admissions for England: Financial Year 1993–94", and copies are available in the Library.