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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.
Labour has hit back, defending the use of private hospitals to tackle record-high waiting lists. A party spokesperson argued that patients can’t afford to wait for ideological purity, stressing ...
The changes will allow patients who need non-emergency elective treatment to choose from a range of providers, including those in the private sector. Ministers and NHS leaders will publish this ...
In London there was a 3% decline in revenue for the 25 private hospitals and clinics in 2017, because of fewer clients from the Middle East. Overseas patients coming to London are more likely to choose the 12 private patient units run by NHS hospital trusts and more likely to be looking for cancer treatment than orthopaedics. [6]
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 ...
Some hospital groups provide insurance plans (e.g. Bupa, Benenden), and some insurance companies have deals with particular private hospital groups. Some private sector patients can be treated in NHS hospitals in which case the patient or his/her insurance company is billed. The Care Quality Commission, after inspecting more than 200 private ...
The NHS paid private healthcare providers more than £2 billion in 2023 an new analysis has shown ... with the NHS splashing out more than £2bn over the year in a bid to ease the patient backlog ...
January 2006 - patients referred to hospital could choose between at least four hospitals. April 2006 – launch of extended choice – patients have access to a national menu of hospitals including NHS foundation trusts , independent sector treatment centres (ISTCs) and independent sector (IS) providers on what is known as the Extended Choice ...