HC Deb 04 July 2000 vol 353 c139W
16. Mr. Ian Bruce

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what change there has been in the number of surgical procedures carried out by independent healthcare providers on behalf of the NHS in the last three years. [127525]

Ms Stuart

This information is not collected centrally. However, in the last three years the total spent outside the National Health Service on all in-patient and day cases (surgical and medical) has risen from £86 million to £103 million, an increase of around £17 million. This remains around 1 per cent. of the total NHS spend on the same cases in the same period.

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