UK market rose to all-time high of £12.4bn last year, with NHS paying for nearly £3.5bn of procedures to ease backlogThe value of the UK’s private healthcare market rose to a record £12.4bn last year as...
Read MoreJoseph Rowntree Foundation points to ‘critical shift in expectations’ and says the public now budget for many routine servicesMost people in the UK now believe they will have to spend their own money on private...
Read MoreStephen Massey has taken on role at GenesisCare, which reports increased demand ‘as a result of NHS backlogs’The Conservative party’s chief executive has taken on a senior role at a private cancer care firm...
Read MoreExclusive: Failure to do so would betray working-class people, shadow health secretary saysWes Streeting has defended Labour’s plans to use the private sector to help cut the NHS care backlog, arguing that a failure to do...
Read MoreShadow health secretary says quicker treatment to stop working class families being left behind is more important than ideology“Middle-class lefties” will not stop a Labour government from using private hospitals to...
Read MoreMonthly increase of 0.2% after surge in high street and online spending offers relief for government A surge in high street and online spending helped Britain’s economy return to growth in January, boosting hopes that the...
Read More‘Real and serious problems’ in UK medical homecare sector going unaddressed due to failures in regulation, damning review saysPrivate healthcare companies are harming NHS patients in their own homes by failing to...
Read MoreHealth secretary says ‘every available resource’ must be used to help patients access diagnosis and treatment fasterMore private and third sector providers should be used by the NHS to help cut post-Covid waiting...
Read MoreFormer PM says service needs radical reform, including pointing patients to private healthcare offersThe NHS must undergo radical change or it will continue to decline and lose public support, Tony Blair has argued on the...
Read MoreMove follows Guardian investigation of botched, delayed or missed deliveries by homecare medicine provider SciensusPeers are launching an inquiry into private health companies paid millions of pounds to courier NHS medicines in...
Read MoreProposal is part of government’s plan to reduce waiting lists, but experts say choice is already available Patients waiting for NHS care will be encouraged to use the health service’s app to book their operation at a...
Read MorePrivate provider criticised for uprooting more than 60 vulnerable children, with some transferred from south-east England to ScotlandThe trade body that oversees children’s care homes has taken the unprecedented step of...
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