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The amount of the NHS budget going to private healthcare firms has reached unprecedented levels, despite the health secretary’s pledge to roll back outsourcing of patient care.
The Department of Health and Social Care handed a record total of £9.2bn last year to private providers such as Virgin Care and the Priory mental health group, its annual report shows.
That is an increase of 14% from the £8.1bn that went to profit-driven healthcare companies in 2014-15 and £410m more than the £8.77bn they received in 2017-18.
It comes after Matt Hancock pledged to MPs in January that “there is no privatisation of the NHS on my watch”.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jul/21/private-firms-nhs-budget-matt-hancock-promise
The Department of Health and Social Care handed a record total of £9.2bn last year to private providers such as Virgin Care and the Priory mental health group, its annual report shows.
That is an increase of 14% from the £8.1bn that went to profit-driven healthcare companies in 2014-15 and £410m more than the £8.77bn they received in 2017-18.
It comes after Matt Hancock pledged to MPs in January that “there is no privatisation of the NHS on my watch”.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jul/21/private-firms-nhs-budget-matt-hancock-promise
