Private Health Care

HC Deb 20 December 1994 vol 251 c1150W

Mr. Redmond

To ask the Secretary of State for Health is she will state the total payments made in respect of private health care provisions for the treatment of NHS patients in each of the last three years.

Mr. Sackville

The level of expenditure by the national health service on health care services from non-NHS providers over the last three years is as follows:

• 1991–92: £208.5 million
• 1992–93: £267.3 million
• 1993–94: £357.4 million (provisional)

Source:

• Annual accounts of FHSAs, regional and district health authorities.
• Financial returns of NHS trusts.

These figures include other non-NHS providers such as charitable and religious hospitals, hospices, MENCAP and, MOD hospitals. No figure is held for the level of expenditure with the private sector alone.