Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many agreements have been signed by clinical commissioning groups which are not subject to the tariff system.
Information is available on the number of local variation templates received by NHS Improvement and can be found in the table below.
Year | Number of local variation templates |
2014/15 | 186 |
2015/16 | 278 |
2016/17 | 106 |
Notes:
Local variations are adjustments to a national price or a currency, agreed by one or more commissioner and one or more provider. Variations can vary in scope from single procedures to groups of services.