HC Deb 17 January 1995 vol 252 c428W
16. Mr. Nigel Evans

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many NHS patients were treated in the north-west region in the last year for which figures are available; and what was the figure in the previous year.

Mr. Sackville

The number of finished consultant episodes in the general and acute sector purchased by the national health service for patients from the former north-western region was 782,000 in 1993–94 compared with 748,000 in 1992–93—an increase of 4.5 per cent.