Non-emergency In-patient Cases (Hansard, 19 October 1999)

HC Deb 19 October 1999 vol 336 c465W 465W

§ 18. Mr. Bill Michie
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many non-emergency in-patient cases were treated by the NHS during the year to the end of March(a) 1999 and (b) 1998. [92604]

§ Mr. Hutton
The number of non-emergency cases (ordinary in-patients and daycases) treated during 1997–98 was 4.9 million. The figure for 1998–99 was 5.4 million, an increase of 9.2 per cent. on the previous year.