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These figures included 117 private hospitals with facilities for surgery. There were at that time 116,564 people aged 65 or over in residential accommodation provided by or on behalf of local authorities, compared with 51,800 patients in NHS hospital departments of geriatric medicine.
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.
According to the Candesic consultancy around £1.8 billion of the £13.8 billion spent by the NHS on mental healthcare in 2018, including non hospital services, went to the private sector. About 25% of NHS mental healthcare beds in England were provided by the private sector, and 98% of their earnings came from the NHS. [21]
The following is a list of hospitals in England. For NHS trusts, see the list of NHS Trusts. East Midlands. Arnold Lodge, ... Metropolitan Free Hospital;
The NHS was established within the differing nations of the United Kingdom through differing legislation, and as such there has never been a singular British healthcare system, instead there are 4 health services in the United Kingdom; NHS England, the NHS Scotland, HSC Northern Ireland and NHS Wales, which were run by the respective UK government ministries for each home nation before falling ...
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.
Practice Plus Group delivers more than 70 dedicated NHS services and treats over a million patients every year, [citation needed] meeting a wide range of healthcare needs. They are regulated by the Care Quality Commission and use the same governance and accountability procedures as the NHS.
Separate analysis of NHS figures by trade union the GMB found healthcare staff in England paid around £70.5 million to park at work in 2023/24 (PA)