§ Mr. John MarshallTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients have been treated by the Royal Free Trust since it became an NHS trust hospital; and what were the numbers treated in the two previous years.
§ Mr. SackvilleThe figures for the first two years of the Royal Free Trust relate to finished consultant episodes in the general and acute specialties, and are as follows:
Number 1991–92 33,822 1992–93 42,539 The total for 1992–93 includes patients undergoing renal dialysis.
No information is available centrally on the number of patients treated in the years before the Royal Free achieved trust status. However, a special exercise conducted for the House Select Committee established that there were 32,040 FCEs in 1990–91.