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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• Desperate patients resort to paying privately for hip and eye surgery as NHS waiting times spiral The Daily Mail