Private Hospitals (Hansard, 19 October 1999)

§ Ms Stuart

Information is not collected centrally on National Health Service expenditure on commissioning health care from private hospitals. Figures on total NHS expenditure on commissioning hospital and community health services outside the NHS each year from 1995–96 are set out in the table for the area covered by each NHS Executive Regional Office. Monthly figures are not collected centrally.

£000
Regional office	1995–96	1996–97	1997–98	1998–99
Northern and Yorkshire	154,678	124,811	144,475	²169,683
Trent	91,130	66,787	78,684	²100,157
Anglia and Oxford	65,918	79,125	108,411	¹—
North Thames	255,304	160,152	179,679	¹—
South Thames	209,584	174,254	185,906	¹—
South and West	204,139	185,334	188,293	¹—
West Midlands	94,272	51,734	91,792	²116,447
North West	151,170	28,947	106,778	²130,595
Eastern	¹—	¹—	¹—	²129,349
London	¹—	¹—	¹—	²223,016
South East	¹—	¹—	¹—	²254,517
South West	¹—	¹—	¹—	²125,245
Total	1,226,195	871,144	1,084,018	1,249,009
¹ Figures unavailable owing to the reorganisation of regional office boundaries
² Provisional figures—may change because of late notifications

Note:

In addition 'Laing's Healthcare Market Review 1998–99' estimates that the value of NHS purchases of acute treatment in the UK under health authority contracts was £50 million in 1995, £52 million in 1996, and £56 million in 1997, the latest figures available.