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Private healthcare in the UK, where universal state-funded healthcare is provided by the National Health Service, is a niche market. Private healthcare services are normally provided as a top-up for NHS services (free of charge) or funded by employers through medical insurance as part of a benefits package to employees. Most private care is for ...
The NHS will pay for treatment in a private setting if the hospital meets the cost and service criteria that NHS hospitals adhere to. Otherwise opting for a private hospital makes the patient liable for private hospital fees. Because the private sector often has higher costs, most people choose to be treated for free in an NHS hospital.
The UK has the fifth largest share of healthcare financed through government schemes out of the 36 OECD member states. [6]According to the Department of Health and Social Care a total of £9.2 billion was paid to private providers in England in 2018-9, or about 7% of the departmental budget (it would be a larger proportion of the NHS budget).
The Princess of Wales announced to the world last March that she was undergoing treatment for cancer, and relayed in September that she had completed chemotherapy. PEOPLE Magazine, Feb. 3, 2025.
Life expectancy development in UK by gender Comparison of life expectancy at birth in England and Wales. Healthcare in the United Kingdom is a devolved matter, with England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales each having their own systems of publicly funded healthcare, funded by and accountable to separate governments and parliaments, together with smaller private sector and voluntary provision.
Kate Middleton is cancer free after chemotherapy treatment – what will her recovery look like? Rebecca Thomas. Updated September 12, 2024 at 7:50 AM.
The marginal cost of the new treatment to deliver this extra gain is £7,000 so the cost per quality life year gained is £7000/0.35 or £20,000. This is within the £20,000-£30,000 that is suggested by NICE to be the limit for drugs to be cost-effective.
“My path to healing and full recovery is long, and I must continue to take each day as it comes,” the royal said.