HC Deb 19 January 1995 vol 252 cc671-3W
Mrs. Beckett

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many in-patient and out-patient private patients were treated in NHS hospitals; and what was

Table 1
1991–92 1992–93 1993–94
Health board In-patients Out-patients In-patients Out-patients In-patients Out-patients
Argyll and Clyde 259 625 52 704 104 541
Ayr and Arran 1,217 318 410 215 406 194
Borders 182 60 214 119 142 84
Dumfries and Galloway 0 320 0 249 0 271
Fife 20 0 5 8 10 9
Forth Valley 195 174 142 210 163 363
Grampian 1,674 1,644 214 368 169 330
Greater Glasgow 77 29 114 39 85 389
Highland 282 209 230 146 412 196
Lanarkshire 0 24 0 1 0 3
Lothian 749 395 845 48S 61 428
Orkney 0 0 0 0 0 0
Shetland 0 0 0 0 0 0
Tayside 724 848 733 950 233 471
Western Isles 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 5,379 4,646 2,959 3,494 1,785 3,279

Table 2
£000
Health board 1989—90 1990—91 1991—92 1992—93 1993—94
Argyll and Clyde 69 57 49 43 36
Ayr and Arran 144 174 234 142 115
Borders 22 32 42 52 32
Dumfries and Galloway 3 5 6 6 8
Fife 1 1 4 0 1
Forth Valley 82 22 37 33 55
Grampian 304 328 473 563 567
Greater Glasgow 34 43 12 19 485
Highland 28 37 54 60 117
Lanarkshire 0 0 0 0 1
Lothian 212 255 548 608 802
Orkney 0 0 0 0 0
Shetland 0 0 0 0 0
Tayside 130 162 184 193 244
Western Isles 0 0 0 0 0
Total 1,029 1,116 1,643 1,719 2,463

the total income earned from private patients in each of the last five years, and by health board area.

Lord James Douglas-Hamilton

[holding answer 13 January 1995]: The figures in the tables have been taken from health board annual accounts and from 1992–93 a combination of health board and NHS trust annual accounts. The figures for 1993–94 are provisional.

The number of in-patient and out-patient private patients treated in NHS hospitals for the years 1991–92 to 1993–94 is set out in table 1. The figures for 1989–90 and 1990–91 are not available centrally.

The income earned from private patients in each of the last five years by health board area is set out in table 2. The figure for Greater Glasgow in 1993–94 includes overseas patients, and can therefore not be compared directly with those for earlier years.