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Expenditure on private health care in the UK in 1976 was estimated at £134 million (excluding abortions, long-term care, and dentistry). That was about 3% of total expenditure on health care in the UK. At that time about 2% of all acute hospital beds and 6% of all hospital beds in England were in private hospitals and nursing homes.
The surgery cost Claire more than £10,000 with a private consultant - the same one she is on a three-year waiting list to see through the NHS. "This was the last option, it was desperation," she ...
A Welsh health board may ask the NHS in England to delay the care it gives to patients living in Wales to save money. It means hospital waiting times could be extended by up to 11 weeks or longer ...
The Department of Health claims stated that by concentrating on a set type of procedures they are able to streamline the patient care pathway, [5] resulting in an improved patient experience [6] and help the NHS to quickly meet waiting time targets; [7] however, the majority of independent research conducted to date has contradicted these claims.
A patient not seen in the 18-week period without just cause has the legal right to go private at the NHS's expense. [according to whom?] As of August 2020, 53.6% of patients were waiting for more than 18 weeks. [7] As a result of these improvements, long waiting times reduced, and the private healthcare sector now sells its surplus capacity to ...
Currently, the waiting list stands at 7.6 million, with the latest figures showing some 282,664 people in England had been waiting more than a year to start routine hospital treatment at the end ...
Under plans aimed at slashing waiting lists, the NHS App will ... will help Labour cut waiting times "from 18 ... an estimated 7.54 million treatments were waiting to be carried out at the end of ...
Later, however in an attempt to comply with the Scottish Treatment Time Guarantee, a 12-week target for inpatient or day-case patients waiting for treatment, NHS Lothian spent £11.3 million on private hospital treatment for NHS patients in 2013–14. [53]