The NHS paid privatehospitals £2bn in the pandemic but some treated more private patients than NHS ones bmj_latest
Private hospitals were paid around £2bn to help the NHS during the first year of the COVID pandemic. But an investigation byhas found that just 30 of the 200 private hospitals were used to treat patients with COVID-19 in April 2020 when the first pandemic wave hit its peak.
Yet, between 30 March 2020 and 30 April 2020, only 0.62% of the private sector's contracted beds were used to treat patients with COVID-19. In May 2020, the private sector was advised to shift its focus to tackling non-urgent care that had been put on hold by NHS trusts swamped by patients with COVID-19.
Meanwhile, 44% of episodes of inpatient care at Circle's 47 private hospitals were private patients; at Ramsay's 31 hospitals nearly 27% of episodes of inpatient care were private.
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