HC Deb 18 March 1996 vol 274 cc84-5W
Mr. Milburn

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the services(a) that have been market tested and (b) are planned to be market tested by NHS trusts and in each case the outcome. [21544]

Mr. Horam

A list of services market tested by one or more national health service trust and their outcome is as shown. It is based on information supplied to the NHS executive's market testing database and indicates the number of known contracts awarded in-house, or to another NHS contractor or to a non-NHS contractor. None of the planned future exercises notified to the NHS executive add to the list of services indicated.

Service tested In-house NHS contractor Commercial contractor
Advertising and recruitment 1 0 15
Agency staffing 4 1 29
Clerical and Secretarial 7 0 17
Audit 14 9 101
Banking 0 0 60
Management services 4 2 3
Computing 7 3 71
Financial services 17 13 45
Human resources 1 1 11
Insurance 0 0 62
Legal 2 3 48
Consultants 0 1 21
Micro-filming 0 0 3
Fire systems 0 0 1
Design 0 0 1
Electrical 0 0 5
Energy management 0 0 2
Estates management 5 4 13
Flooring 0 0 2
Repairs and maintenance 0 0 1
Service tested In-house NHS contractor Commercial contractor
Glazing 0 0 1
Lighting 0 0 4
Painting 11 0 13
Gas supply 0 0 1
Water services 0 0 11
Building and engineering 35 6 95
Estates maintenance 2 1 7
Equipment/system 32 18 317
Accommodation 1 0 1
Car parks 2 0 40
Hotel services 59 2 50
Catering 336 4 122
Domestic 353 5 320
Laundry 128 67 158
Supplies 6 11 21
Pest control 7 6 221
Portering 7 2 30
Security 9 0 114
General patient services 3 1 5
Switchboard/reception 9 1 15
Transport 52 35 138
Window cleaning 9 1 302
Waste disposal 10 22 190
Continuing care-elderly 0 1 2
Bio-engineering 0 2 0
Clinical coding 0 2 0
CSSD1 13 6 19
Dental 0 0 1
HSDU1 2 0 1
Infection control 0 1 0
Medical physics 0 1 0
Medical photography 0 1 1
Nuclear medicine 0 1 0
Opthamology 0 0 2
Magnetic resonance imaging 0 1 1
Occupational health 9 5 7
Orthotics 1 0 2
Occupational therapy 1 0 0
Prosthetics 0 0 2
Pathology 3 14 2
Pharmacy 5 3 2
Physiotherapy 0 1 0
Patient appliances 0 1 12
Radiology 0 1 0
Speech therapy 2 0 0
Termination of pregnancy 1 0 0
Psychology 1 0 0
Education and staff training 2 1 6
1CSSD = Central sterile supply department, HSDU = Hospital sterilising and disinfecting unit, IVF = In-vitro fertilisation.

Notes:

1. There is no standard definition of services or list of services within the NHS and those listed above relate to provider units' interpretation.

2. Service headings such as "Hotel Services" and "Facilities Management" include a wide and varying range of individual services, e.g., catering, portering, security, car parking. Again there is no set pattern of which services make up hotel services, etc., but relates to individual provider units' interpretation.