NHS England: Private Sector

(asked on 1st July 2019) - 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 total payments made by NHS England to private providers in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Stephen Hammond Portrait
Stephen Hammond
This question was answered on 4th July 2019

Total spending by NHS Commissioners on private health providers in each of the last five years for which figures are available is shown in the following table.

NHS Commissioners' spend on non National Health Service bodies by organisation type

2013/14

2014/15

2015/16

2016/17

2017/18

£ million

£ million

£ million

£ million

£ million

Independent sector providers

6,467

8,067

8,818

9,007

8,765


Note: 1. The numbers above have been collected separately from audited accounts data and may include estimates.

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