Monday 13 August 2018

Numbers 'going private' for surgery soaring as NHS rationing deepens 

Numbers 'going private' for surgery soaring as NHS rationing deepens The number of patients paying for operations privately is soaring amid rising waiting lists and deepening rationing across the NHS, new figures show.

Private companies have seen a 53 per cent rise in the “self-pay” market in four years, the data reveals.

Analysts said the market for operations such as hip surgery and cataract operations was being fuelled by “very high waits for NHS diagnosis and treatment”. The Daily Telegraph

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