Table 2 Expenditure excl depreciation , by category. 2002-2005. NOK million

2	Expenditure excl depreciation¹ , by category. 2002-2005. NOK million

	2002	2003	2004	2005³^, ⁴^, ⁵


Total expenditure, exclusive depreciation	56 503	61 110	65 894	70 231
Wages and social expenses	37 986	41 415	44 266	46 878
Medicines and other medical consumption goods (40)	5 195	5 826	6 282	6 804
Purchases of public health services (450, 456, 457)	2 207	1 508	2 442	3 499
Purchases of private health services (451, 453)	2 806	1 901	4 738	7 009
Purchases and rental of medical equipment (640, 650)	101	225	248	321
Purchases of treatment abroad (454)	.	.	.	75
Other purchases of health services (458)	.	.	.	1 039
Guest patient expenditure (673)²	678	2 888	1 463	.
Conveyance of patients (610)	.	.	.	1 397
Other expenditure				10 913

¹	Total expenditure includes regional health entreprises, health entreprises and private institutions within the specialist health service.
²	2002: Guest patient expenditure was not published by Statistics Norway. 2003: Guest patient expenditure was moved from codes 450 and 451 to 673.
³	2005: Code 673, Guest patient expenditure, was removed. Codes for guest patient expenditure are 451, 456 and 457. The variable other expenditure was not published in 2002-2004.
⁴	New codes in 2005: 453 Private institutions with operating agreements. 454 Purchases of treatment abroad.
⁵	Total expenditure is corrected for expenditure to guest patients and transactions between public enterprises and private institutions. Due to this there is a gap between total expenditure and categories of costs total NOK 7.7 million.