HC Deb 13 January 1995 vol 252 cc242-3W
Mrs. Beckett

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what is the value of NHS contracts placed with non-NHS providers(a) in total, (b) by health authority, (c) by each general practitioner fund holding practice and (d) by each trust.

Mr. Richards

Information about the value of NHS contracts placed with non-NHS providers is not available centrally. However, the amount spent in 1993–94 on health care purchases from non-NHS providers by health authorities, general practitioner fund-holding practices—on an aggregated basis—and by NHS trusts, is shown in the following table.

Health authority 1993–94 £000
Clwyd 944
East Dyfed 611
Gwent 5,444
Gwynedd 819
Mid Glamorgan 1,695
Pembrokeshire 207
Powys 173
South Glamorgan 1,225
West Glamorgan 143
General practitioner fundholding practice aggregate (by Family Health Services Authority)
Clwyd 71
Dyfed 18
Gwent 233
Gwynedd 0
Mid Glamorgan 139
Powys 52
South Glamorgan 2
West Glamorgan 142
NHS Trust
Bridgend and District 0
Carmarthen and District 20
Ceredigion and Mid Wales 0
Clwydian 798
Glan Clwyd 0
Glan Hafren 5
Gwent Community Health 751
Llandough Hospital 0
Llanelli Dinefwr 1,085
Pembrokeshire 29
Powys Healthcare 0
Health authority 1993–94 £000
South East Wales Ambulance Trust 0
Swansea 0
Wrexham Maelor 0
Total 14,606

Source:

Health authorities and GP fund-holding accounts, NHS trust financial returns.

Notes:

(i) 1993–94 figures are provisional.

(ii) Information is not held centrally in respect of individual GP fund-holding practices but is shown on an aggregated basis in the annual accounts of family health services authorities. This expenditure represents GP fund-holders purchases of hospital services paid by the family health services authorities on behalf of GP fund-holders.