§ Mr. MilburnTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how much has been allocated to general practitioner fundholders for(a) computer hardware costs and (b) computer software costs in each of the last five years in each region.
§ Mr. Malone[holding answer 23 January 1995]: Family health services authorities are not allocated separate funds for general practitioner fundholder computers. Available information about expenditure is shown in the table. It is not possible to identify hardware and software costs.
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Spend on information technology to Support GP fundholding £000s Region 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 Northern 736 900 835 Yorkshire 1,363 2,193 1,294 Trent 1,337 2,949 2,395
Spend on information technology to Support GP fundholding £000s Region 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 East Anglian 200 612 752 North west Thames 741 1,411 1,298 North east Thames 95 398 367 South east Thames 783 1,455 1,868 South west Thames 1,029 916 1,160 Wessex 952 626 939 Oxford 1,246 1,377 1,392 South western 1,165 1,121 1,149 West Midlands 1,152 2,371 2,413 Mersey 463 731 1,024 North western 361 994 1.619 Total 11,623 18,054 18.505 Expenditure figures are estimates taken from FIS4 returns by English FHSAs.