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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 ...
About half of abortions were at that time performed in private clinics and nursing homes. In 2021 it was reported that there were about 700 operating theatres in private hospitals, mostly staffed by NHS anaesthetists and surgeons working evenings and weekends. Few private hospitals had intensive care facilities for emergencies. [15]
Ramsay Health Care UK is a healthcare company based in the United Kingdom. It was founded by Australian businessman Paul Ramsay, who established its parent company: Ramsay Health Care, in Sydney, Australia, in 1964 and has grown to become a global hospital group operating 151 hospitals and day surgery facilities across Australia, the United Kingdom, France, Indonesia and Malaysia.
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.
The relationship between the NHS and the private health sector has been expanded in a new deal which will make the facilities and resources of private hospitals more available to the NHS.
Independent sector treatment centres (ISTCs) are private-sector owned treatment centres contracted within the English National Health Service to treat NHS patients free at the point of use. They are sometimes referred to as 'surgicentres' or 'specialist hospitals'. ISTCs are often co-located with NHS hospitals.
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 cost of repairing NHS facilities in England has skyrocketed to £13.8bn, with £2.7bn of the necessary works classified as posing a “high risk” to safety, according to the latest NHS figures.