Jess Phillips – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jess Phillips on 2015-11-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate his Department has made of the number of (a) surgical operations, (b) diagnostic tests and (c) endoscopy procedures which could be used to treat NHS patients and are available from independent sector healthcare providers in winter 2015-16.

Jane Ellison

Decisions about whether to use independent sector capacity are made at local level according to local need, as part of the operational management of capacity and demand.