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Written Question
Hospital Beds
Friday 17th December 2021

Asked by: Lord Owen (Independent Social Democrat - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what was the average bed occupancy in NHS hospitals in England per year for the last 30 years for which figures are available.

Answered by Lord Kamall - Shadow Minister (Health and Social Care)

Data on the average bed occupancy in National Health Service hospitals in England in each year is held from 2010/11 onwards and is shown in the following table.

Year Total bed occupancy General and acute bed occupancy

2010/11 85.4% 87.1%

2011/12 85.3% 86.9%

2012/13 86.2% 88.0%

2013/14 86.3% 88.0%

2014/15 87.2% 89.0%

2015/16 87.2% 88.9%

2016/17 88.3% 90.3%

2017/18 88.2% 90.3%

2018/19 88.0% 90.1%

2019/20 88.0% 90.2%

2020/21 76.0% 76.6%

2021/22 84.8% 86.5%

Source: NHS England

Note: Data for 2021/ 22 includes figures from 1 April 2021 to 30 September 2021.

Written Question
NHS: Private Sector
Monday 6th February 2017

Asked by: Lord Owen (Independent Social Democrat - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in respect of the Department of Health’s figure of £8,722,000 for the amount spent in purchasing services from Independent Sector Providers in 2015–16, what are the (1) contracts, (2) providers and (3) service categories concerned.

Answered by Lord O'Shaughnessy

Information pertaining to contracts and service categories is not held centrally.

National Health Service commissioners purchase services from a range of independent sector providers. NHS England records independent sector providers through coding identifiers; a sample of independent sector providers sourced from NHS England’s coding identifiers is attached, due to the large amount of data. Some providers do not have separate coding identifiers, therefore there are providers commissioned by NHS England which do not appear in the attached list.

Written Question
NHS: Private Sector
Wednesday 1st February 2017

Asked by: Lord Owen (Independent Social Democrat - Life peer)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the figure of £8,722,000 stated by the Department of Health in its Annual Report and Accounts 2015–16 (HC322) as the amount spent in purchasing services from Independent Sector Providers includes amounts (1) spent by NHS Trusts and NHS Foundation Trusts on such providers, and (2) paid under Private Finance Initiative and Private Finance 2 projects; and, if so, whether they will publish the respective amounts.

Answered by Lord O'Shaughnessy

The £8.722 million figure in Departmental accounts is the total value of NHS England commissioners’ contracts with private sector providers in 2015-16. This includes all types of secondary care, but not primary or social care. This does not include services contracted between individual trusts or foundation trusts and independent sector providers or any private finance arrangements.

Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 07 May 2014
Care Bill [HL]

"My Lords, I speak to my Amendment 45E. A recent comment article in the Lancet starts off with the words:

“Trust in the protection of confidential patient data in England seems to be at an all-time low given recent breaches in releases of patient data and the finding that hospital …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 07 May 2014
Care Bill [HL]

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As an amendment to the Motion that this House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment 45, at end insert “and do propose Amendment 45F as a consequential amendment”...."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 07 May 2014
Care Bill [HL]

"My Lords, for those who have not been in the debate I will try to deal with the specific responses from the different speakers. First, perhaps I may deal with the response from the noble Lord, Lord Lester. I agree very much with what he said. I believe that the …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 24 Apr 2013
National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No. 2) Regulations 2013

"My Lords, the noble Lord and I served together in the Department of Health many years ago, and he will remember that his then boss, Barbara Castle, warned in the 1975 referendum about the impact of the European Economic Community, as it was then called. I thought she was greatly …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 19 Mar 2012
Health and Social Care Bill

"

To leave out from “that” to the end and insert “the Bill be not read a third time until the House has had an opportunity to consider the detailed reasons for the first-tier tribunal decision that the transition risk register be disclosed and the Government’s response thereto, or until the …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 19 Mar 2012
Health and Social Care Bill

" My Lords, this is rather a strange situation. We are coming to the end of an extraordinarily long process of debate, yet there is still one element that is not directly related to the Bill and much more concerns constitutional questions and the Freedom of Information Act. Throughout the …..."
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Mon 19 Mar 2012
Health and Social Care Bill

"Before the noble Earl continues on that path, I have never used the word “concealment” in any of the many speeches I have made on this Bill. I also do not believe that it is improper for the Government to appeal on both those points. I do not mind my …..."
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