§ Mr. MarlowTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list by month and year for each of the last five years the number of(a) diagnosed and (b) newly suspected cases of the new strain of CJD; to what extent the trends enable him to make assessments of future numbers; and what assessment he has made of likely future numbers. [11719]
Expenditure 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 £million £million percentage change £million percentage change £million percentage change Surgical specialties 5,158 5,258 1.9 5,574 6.0 5,856 5.1 Non-surgical specialties 9,281 6,426 1.6 9,700 2.9 10,133 4.5 Accident and emergency 567 642 13.3 650 1.1 686 5.7 Notes:
1. Surgical includes: total of surgical specialties; renal transplant; heart transplantation; and surgical supra-regional services.
2. Non-surgical includes: total of medical specialties; maternity; psychiatric specialties; other specialties; renal dialysis; national poisons information services; psychiatric services for deaf people; and retinoblastoma services.
3. Figures are taken from purchaser expenditure data, but the breakdown between specialty groups has been derived from NHS providers' financial returns.
4. The 1995–96 figures are provisional.
Source:
1. The annual financial returns of national health service trusts.
2. The annual financial returns of the directly managed units of health authorities.
3. The annual financial returns of the special health authorities of the London postgraduate teaching hospitals.
4. Hospital and community health services programme budget.