Health Services: Private Sector
(asked on 12th October 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the cost to the public purse was of treatments provided to private patients in NHS hospitals in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.
This question was answered on 18th October 2017
There should not be a net cost to the public purse of treating private patients. National Health Service organisations can treat private patients but only for the purpose of generating income to fund treatment of NHS patients.