HC Deb 19 June 1996 vol 279 c491W
Mr. Bayley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to his answer of 11 June,Official Report, columns 109–10, if he will list the number of private patients in NHS pay beds in 1994–95 whose treatment is recorded in the hospital episode system under each of the five most frequently used (a) operation and (b) diagnosis codes in relation to conditions of (i) the nervous system, (ii) the eye, (iii) the upper digestive tract, (iv) the other abdominal organs, (v) the heart, (vi) the arteries and veins, (vii) the urinary system, (viii) the bones and joints of the skull and spines and (ix) miscellaneous. [33304]

Mr. Horam

The information available centrally relates to finished consultant episodes. A table will be placed in the Library showing the number of completed first order episodes, by selected main operation and principal diagnosis.