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Commons · Question 47590 · Tabled 23 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 30 Apr 2025

Question

Asked by Gregory Stafford

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

Answered by Karin Smyth, 30 Apr 2025

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...