Patients (Hansard, 22 February 1994)

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§ 16. Sir Fergus Montgomery
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the average annual change in the number of patients treated between(a) 1974 and 1979 and (b) 1979 and the latest 'year for which figures are available.

§ Mr. Sackville
The national health service is treating record numbers of patients. The average annual increase between 1974 and 1979 was 1.3 per cent. The corresponding figure for the period 1979 to 1992–93 was 2.9 per cent.

§ 1979. Mr. Nigel Evans
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many in-patients were treated in(a) the latest year for which figures are available and (b)

§ Mr. Sackville
There were 7,829,403 episodes of care in 1992–93 compared with 5,400,120 in-patients in 1979. This represents an increase of 30 per cent.
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