§ Mr. Denis MurphyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what his Department's expenditure on medication treatment for dementia was in the most recent year for which figures are available; and what were(a) the expenditure, (b) the numbers treated and (c) the numbers awaiting treatment for each health authority area in the latest year for which figures are available. [133957]
§ Mr. DenhamInformation on(a) expenditure and (b) number of prescriptions in England for the year 1999 is shown in the table. Information on the number of patients treated or waiting for treatment is not available.
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Number of prescription items and the net ingredient cost of drugs dispensed in the community for dementia, 1999 England Health authority in which the item was dispensed Prescription items (Thousand) Net ingredient cost (£000) Hillingdon 0.2 18.3 Kensington and Chelsea and Westminster 0.1 12.1 Enfield and Haringey 0.2 19.6 Redbridge and Waltham Forest 0.1 13.2 Bedfordshire 0.2 15.7 Berkshire 0.2 16.7 Buckinghamshire 0.1 4.7 Bexley and Greenwich 0.2 17.0 Bromley 0.1 9.6 Croydon 0.2 26.8 East Kent 0.3 40.9 West Kent 0.2 23.1 Kingston and Richmond 0.3 25.1 Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham 0.1 8.8 Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth 0.2 14.6 East Surrey 0.3 37.1 West Surrey 0.7 82.1 East Sussex, Brighton and Hove 0.5 44.8 West Sussex 0.8 100.2 Barking and Havering 0.7 80.8 Barnet 0.3 38.2 Brent and Harrow 0.1 18.7 Camden and Islington 0.3 30.8 Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow 0.1 8.4 East London and The City 0.1 12.6 North Essex 1.0 95.4 South Essex 0.4 41.4 South Lancashire 0.0 3.4 Liverpool 0.1 10.8 Manchester 0.6 41.9 Morecambe Bay 1.3 109.8 St. Helens and Knowsley 0.2 12.5 Salford and Trafford 0.2 12.7
Number of prescription items and the net ingredient cost of drugs dispensed in the community for dementia, 1999 England Health authority in which the item was dispensed Prescription items (Thousand) Net ingredient cost (£000) Sefton 0.1 5.6 Stockport 0.2 15.9 West Pennine 0.4 30.4 Northamptonshire 0.3 24.3 Oxfordshire 0.1 10.3 Suffolk 0.5 43.7 Barnsley 0.0 5.3 North Derbyshire 0.3 22.1 Southern Derbyshire 0.3 31.9 Doncaster 0.1 2.2 Leicestershire 0.7 73.2 Lincolnshire 1.4 110.1 North Nottinghamshire 0.2 16.0 Nottingham 1.7 153.1 Rotherham 0.1 5.3 Sheffield 0.4 64.5 Bury and Rochdale 0.2 12.5 North Cheshire 0.1 5.5 South Cheshire 1.5 109.4 East Lancashire 0.3 21.7 North West Lancashire 1.0 77.6 North and Mid Hampshire 0.5 66.2 Portsmouth and South East Hampshire 0.2 35.4 Southampton and South West Hampshire 1.5 128.5 Somerset 0.5 53.2 South and West Devon 0.3 35.8 Wiltshire 1.0 111.6 Avon 0.2 18.0 Birmingham 0.2 18.7 Wigan and Bolton 1.3 105.7 Wirral 1.5 100.3 Bradford 0.2 14.6 County Durham and Darlington 0.1 8.1 East Riding and Hull 0.2 18.9 Leeds 1.7 109.0 Newcastle and North Tyneside 0.2 25.9 North Cumbria 1.1 94.4 South Humber 0.1 12.6 Northumberland 0.1 11.1 Sunderland 0.2 25.2 Tees 0.1 8.8 North Yorkshire 0.3 21.6 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 0.9 81.1 Dorset 0.2 18 North and East Devon 0.2 16.8 Gloucestershire 0.1 11.2 Coventry 0.1 5.4 Shropshire 0.1 14.1 Solihull 0.1 8.3 North Staffordshire 0.1 6.0 South Staffordshire 0.1 10.1 Warwickshire 0.1 5.7 Worcestershire 0.2 24.5 East and North Hertfordshire 0.2 25.0 West Hertfordshire 0.1 5.5 Cambridgeshire 0.3 25.7 Norfolk 0.1 12.9 England 34.6 3,214.4 Notes:
1. Prescription Cost Analysis data are based on a full analysis of all prescriptions dispensed in the community, i.e. by community pharmacists and appliance contractors, dispensing doctors, and prescriptions submitted by prescribing doctors for items personally administered in England. Total prescriptions include not only prescriptions originating from general practices in England but also from hospital doctors and dentists provided they were dispensed in the community. Also included are prescriptions written in Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man but dispensed in 88W England. The data do not cover drugs dispensed in hospital or private prescriptions. Health authority data cover prescriptions dispensed in that health authority.
2. The net ingredient cost is the basic cost of a drug and does not take account of discounts, dispensing costs, fees or prescription charges income.
3. Drugs used in the treatment of dementia are those defined in the British National Formulary (BNF) section 4.11, "Drugs for dementia".
4. North West Anglia Health Authority ceased to exist from I April 1999. The existing practices and contractors were reallocated to Cambridge and Norfolk Health Authorities.
5. Health authorities where the number of prescription items dispensed was less than 50 have been removed due to confidentiality issues