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Dept of Health

Answer

Mr. Gerald Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the total cost of the (a) adolescent and child psychiatry service, (b) adolescent and child psychology service, (c) community psychiatric nursing service, (d) cervical cytology screening programme and (e) accident and emergency service in (i) 1970, (ii) 1980, (iii) 1990 and (iv) 1999. [126824] Mr. Hutton: [holding answer 19 June 2000]: Information on the costs of the community psychiatric nurses is not collected centrally. Information is not collected separately on the child and adolescent psychology service. The NHS Cervical Screening Programme began in 1988. The National Audit Office estimated in 1998 that the Programme costs around £132 million per year, around £34 per woman screened National Audit Office; The Performance of the NHS Cervical Screening Programme in England; Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General; HC678 Session 1997-98; 22 April 1998. The latest information on the cost of child and adolescent psychiatry service and the accident and emergency service is shown in the table. £ _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Expenditure 1998-99 Adolescent and child psychiatry 123,278,175 Purchase of healthcare by HAs (A&E) 780,245,000 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. The adolescent and child psychiatry figure includes expenditure for in-patients, outpatients, royal college specialities and day care patients.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

352 c128-9W; 126824

Session

1999-00

Subjects

Children Cervical cancer Costs Health services Mental health services Psychiatry Young people Screening Accident and emergency departments Psychology Community health services

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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