§ Mr. Raceasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish in the Official Report the receipts received from any changes made for the provision of blood by the National Blood Transfusion Service to private patients over the past five years.
§ Sir George YoungPrivate patients are not charged for the provision of blood which is donated free to the National Health Service. As I said in my reply to the hon. Member for Ormskirk (Mr. Kilroy-Silk) on 22 January 1980, I shall consider the question of processing and handling charges for blood supplied to non-NHS users in the light of information being assembled by the Department.
§ Mr. Raceasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish in the Official Report the receipts received from any charges made for the provision of ambulance services to private patients over the past five years.
§ Sir George YoungThis income is not separately identified in ambulance service accounts received centrally.
§ Mr. Raceasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish in the Official Report the receipts received from any charges made for the provision of laboratory services in National Health Service hospitals and incurred by consultants on behalf of patients in private hospitals or by private patients in National Health Service hospitals.
§ Sir George YoungNational Health Service private in-patients are not charged separately for particular services but pay an inclusive daily charge. The other information requested is not available centrally, because income arising from the provision of specific types of service, whether to NHS private outpatients or non-NHS patients, is not identified in health authority accounts received centrally.