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NHS: Inflation

Volume 470: debated on Monday 7 January 2008

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Mr. Stephen O'Brien

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the rate of (a) inflation and (b) wage inflation was in the NHS in each year since 1995. (164592)

Mr. Bradshaw

The following table reports, from 1995-96 to 2005-06, Hospital and Community Health Service (HCHS) wage inflation and total national health service inflation.

Percentage

HCHS Pay Inflation

Total NHS Inflation

1995-96

4.4

3.7

1996-97

3.3

2.9

1997-98

2.5

2.1

1998-99

4.9

3.9

1999-2000

6.9

4.6

2000-01

7.2

4.2

2001-02

8.3

4.8

2002-03

5.0

3.5

2003-04

7.3

4.9

2004-05

4.5

n/a

2005-06

4.7

n/a

Notes: 1. Wage inflation is measured using the HCHS pay cost index, which is a measure of the average paybill per head of those employed within the HCHS. 2. The total NHS inflation index is no longer available from 2004-05 as it relies on the General Medical Service (GMS)/Personal Medical Service data series, which has discontinued since the introduction of the new GMS contract in 2004-05.