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Through these centres they treat 80,000 NHS patients each year. [citation needed] The hospitals and surgical centres cover a range of specialties, [3] including orthopaedics, endoscopy, ophthalmology, urology, gynaecology, oral and general surgery. Most centres also offer diagnostic imaging, such as X-rays and MRI, CT and ultrasound scans.
The Independent Healthcare Providers Network (IHPN), formerly known as the NHS Partners Network, is a representative body for independent sector healthcare providers in the United Kingdom. The body was formed in 2005 to provide a voice for private health companies, and was initially made up of organisations involved in the government's ...
Only The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, which hopes to raise 45% of its income from private patients and other non-NHS sources in 2016/7 and is trying to raise its income from paying patients from £90m to £100m, [18] is anywhere near the 49% limit. the total private income of NHS trusts in England was £599.1 million in 2016-17 and £626 ...
An NHS spokesperson said: "While latest data shows NHS staff are making progress to cut waiting lists and tackle the backlog, we know there is much more to do to bring down long waits for care ...
The majority of the private hospital sector’s profit has come from NHS patients, with £2.13bn spent by the NHS in 2023 – equating to 13.3 per cent of the NHS’s total spend on mental health.
In 2019 private hospitals carried out 526,000 elective procedures on NHS patients. In 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in England that fell to 291,000. [ 15 ] In March 2020 NHS England block booked most of the private hospital sector’s services, facilities and nearly 20,000 clinical staff at cost price in a deal brokered by the Independent ...
The NHS Plan 2000 originally conceived of opening eight treatment centres by 2005, but by August 2005 at least 25 had been opened, with more being planned. 46 NHS treatment centres opened between 2003 and 2009, treating approximately 300,000 patients a year with high rate of patient satisfaction (>94%).
Spire Liverpool Hospital. In 2021, it generated about 30% of its revenues from contracts with the NHS. [19]The company alleged in 2013 that a block contract agreed between Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the Clinical Commissioning Groups in Blackpool, and Fylde and Wyre offered a "clear incentive" for GPs to refer patients to the foundation trust and that this was ...