Surgery: Private Sector
(asked on 17th February 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of operations carried out in private practice for which the NHS paid in each of the last 5 years.
This question was answered on 1st March 2023
The following table shows a count of procedures carried out by non-National Health Service providers, which were NHS funded, from 2017/18 to 2021/22. NHS providers include charities, local authorities and private providers.
Year | Procedure Count |
2017/18 | 1,833,623 |
2018/19 | 1,854,489 |
2019/20 | 1,877,221 |
2020/21 | 1,093,858 |
2021/22 | 1,891,632 |
Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, NHS England