NHS Foundation Trusts: Private Patient Income (Hansard, 20 November 2003)

HL Deb 20 November 2003 vol 654 c346WA 346WA

§ Earl Howe
asked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether the cap on private patient income included in the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Bill allows some flexibility for the independent regulator for those foundation hospitals whose level of private patient income in 2002-03 was atypically low. [HL5283]

§ Lord Warner
No, the percentage will be fixed as the percentage that applied for each National Health Service foundation trust in the financial year ending April 2003.