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73.
Mr. Barry Field
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what figure he has for the average number of inpatients treated each week by the National Health Service: and what was the figure in 1979.
Mr. Freeman
The information requested is given in the table:
| Patients treated, per week, NHS hospitals, England, 1979 and 1988–89 | ||
| 1979 | 1988–89 | |
| Inpatient cases treated | 103,848 | 126,654 |
Source: Returns SH3 (1978 data), SH3a (1988–89 data).