§ Mr. BayleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what percentage of cold surgical interventions were carried out(a) in private hospitals or clinics by private practitioners, (b) in national health service hospitals by private practitioners and (c) in NHS hospitals by NHS 682W practitioners in each regional health authority in 1979–80 and in each year since then.
§ Mr. SackvilleCentral returns do not include numbers of operations carried out in private hospitals and clinics. Estimates of the number of elective private operations carried out in national health service hospitals in England for the years 1989–90 to 1991–92 are set out in the table. Comparative information for previous years is not available. Figures for private elective operations by regional health authority are not available.
Information about numbers of all NHS operations by regional health authority is published annually in the "Hospital Episode Statistics", volumes 1 and 2, copies of which are available in the Library.
Elective Operations: England 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 Private Elective Operations1 50,062 49,291 61,819 All NHS Elective Operations 2,402,348 2,417,252 2,626,039 Per cent. Private 2.1 2.0 2.4 1In NHS Hospitals Source:
Hospital Episode Statistics—based on 25 per cent. sample.