NHS: Private Patients

(asked on 20th December 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 5 December 2016 to Question 55033, what the number of private patients treated by the NHS was in each of the last five years for which figures are available.


Answered by
Philip Dunne Portrait
Philip Dunne
This question was answered on 9th January 2017

Providers report income from private patients as part of their annual accounts, however the number of private patients treated by individual National Health Service providers is not collected centrally.

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