HC Deb 20 January 1997 vol 288 cc491-2W
Mr. Gordon Prentice

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the average cost to the NHS of purchasing the use of an MRI scanner for an NHS patient at a private hospital. [11883]

Mr. Horam

No details of the costs of magnetic resonance imager scanning are held by the Department of Health.

Mr. Prentice

To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many MRI scanners are available in the NHS; and what estimate he has made of the number in the private health sector. [11884]

Mr. Horam

Data on the numbers of magnetic resonance imager scanners in the national health service and the private health sector is not held centrally by the Department of Health.