Medical rehabilitation expenditure
The Minister gave annual revenue costs for rehabilitation in special institutions, but said general-hospital costs were unavailable, preventing calculation of its share of health expenditure.
asked the Minister for Health the percentage of health expenditure devoted to medical rehabilitation, in-patient and out-patient, in each of the last five years.
Comment on this
Medical rehabilitation is provided at special institutions and also at general hospitals.
The revenue cost of the service in the special institutions in each of the last five years was estimated at: 1973, £715,000; 1974, £890,000; 1975, £1,090,000; 1976, £1,320,000; 1977, £1,760,000.
Information regarding the cost of the service in general hospitals is not available in my Department. Accordingly, it is not possible to indicate what percentage of health expenditure is devoted to medical rehabilitation.