Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 47590

Health Services

Tabled: 23 April 2025
Answered: 30 April 2025

Question

Gregory Stafford

ConservativeFarnham and Bordon

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the number of procedures deliverable per £1 million of Departmental spend via (a) NHS internal delivery, (b) outsourcing and (c) insourcing.

Answer

Karin Smyth
The National Health Service’s national cost collection gives a national average unit cost of £751 across all planned procedures within outpatients, day cases, and elective inpatient settings in 2023/24. This is the equivalent to 1,331 procedures per £1 mi...

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