HC Deb 05 May 1993 vol 224 cc164-5W
22. Mr. Knox

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many(a) in-patients and (b) out-patients were treated in national health service hospitals in Scotland in the most recent year for which figures are available; and what the figures were in 1979.

Mr. Stewart

A total of 933,624 patients were treated as in-patients in national health service hospitals in Scotland in the year ending 30 September 1992 compared with 735,583 in 1979—a 27 per cent. increase. Out-patients rose to 6,013,929 in 1992 from 5,202,863 in 1979. The most significant increase occurred in the numbers of patients treated as day cases—up to 229,222 in 1992 a 180 per cent. increase on the 81,577 recorded in 1979.