NHS: Private Sector

(asked on 16th April 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many NHS contracts were secured by private providers in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.


Answered by
Steve Barclay Portrait
Steve Barclay
Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
This question was answered on 24th April 2018

The Department does not hold all of the information centrally.

Total spending by NHS Commissioners on private health providers in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available is shown in the table below.

NHS Commissioners' spend on non NHS bodies by organisation type

Year

Total spend on independent sector £ million

2006/07

2,193

2007/08

2,916

2008/09

3,419

2009/10

4,144

2010/11

4,757

2011/12

5,320

2012/13

5,669

2013/14

6,467

2014/15

8,067

2015/16

8,818

2016/17

9,007

Note:

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

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