Tulip Siddiq – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tulip Siddiq on 2016-01-22.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost of backlog maintenance for each level of assessed risk was in the NHS (a) in total and (b) for each NHS organisation in each of the last five years.
George Freeman
The Backlog Maintenance cost reported by the National Health Service in total for the last five years is:
|
Cost to eradicate high risk backlog |
Cost to eradicate significant risk backlog |
Cost to eradicate moderate risk backlog |
Cost to eradicate low risk backlog |
|
|
£ million |
£ million |
£ million |
£ million |
|
|
2010-11 |
321.7 |
1,021.6 |
1,523.6 |
1,298.7 |
|
2011-12 |
296.3 |
926.4 |
1,484.8 |
1,316.3 |
|
2012-13 |
353.1 |
1,002.0 |
1,476.5 |
1,204.3 |
|
2013-14 |
356.6 |
1,016.7 |
1,426.6 |
1,241.8 |
|
2014-15 |
458.0 |
1,062.1 |
1,551.3 |
1,266.5 |
The equivalent data for each NHS organisation is attached.
The Department collects data on backlog maintenance annually from the NHS trusts through its Estates Returns Information Collection. The data collected has not been amended centrally and its accuracy always remains the responsibility of the contributing NHS organisations.
