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Surgical Appliances

Volume 981: debated on Tuesday 25 March 1980

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asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish a table showing, for each of the last five years, the cost to the National Health Service of supplying surgical appliances, and the revenue received from patients, for those appliances.

The information requested is not maintained centrally, but approximate totals of the value of lowing sizes 20 beds or less, 21 to 100 beds, 101 to 500 beds, 501 to 1,000 beds and 1,000 beds plus.

Information is not held in the precise form requested. The following table sets out the closest available:surgical appliances supplied by the National Health Service in England and Wales are as follows:

£ million
197513·8
197615·4
197717·3
197819·3
197923·2