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Mr. Patchett
To ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the number of private patients using pay beds in the Trent regional health authority; and what was the corresponding figure for each year since 1980.
Mrs. Virginia Bottomley
The information requested is given in the table.
| Private patients treated in NHS hospitals in Trent Regional health authority. | |
| Year | Numbers of patients1 using pay beds |
| 1980 | 5,065 |
| 1981 | 4,584 |
| 1982 | 3,834 |
| 1983 | 3,976 |
| 1984 | 2,979 |
| 1985 | 2,837 |
| 1986 | 3,012 |
| 21987–88 | 3,503 |
| 1 Discharges and deaths recorded on form SBH211 for 1980–86. | |
| 2 Finished consultant episodes recorded on form KP21 for 1987–88. | |