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CHPI evidence to the COVID 19 Public Inquiry on the use of the private hospital sector to support the pandemic response

Featured, Reports | November 8, 2024

CHPI evidence to the COVID 19 Public Inquiry The Centre has been the only organisation which has carried out a detailed analysis of the contracts between the NHS and the private hospital sector during the pandemic.  We have conducted two previous studies of this issue based on Freedom of Information requests and analysis of financial data and hospital activity statistics.   You can read these reports here and here These contracts were put in place to provide additional capacity to support the NHS and to ensure that patients...

Out of Sight – the hidden impact of cataract outsourcing on NHS eye care departments

Featured, Reports | July 10, 2024

This briefing note forms part of our wider study into the outsourcing of NHS eye care services to the private sector.

Out of Sight – understanding the hidden impact of cataract outsourcing on NHS finances

Featured, Reports | March 12, 2024

This briefing note forms part of our wider study into the outsourcing of NHS eye care services to the private sector.

P.F.I. Profiting from Inflation?

Featured, Reports, Analyses & Briefings | October 4, 2023

New report shows the significant impact of inflation on NHS Trusts with PFI schemes, with large profits and dividend payments continuing to be made by PFI companies.

After the pandemic: is the new public health system in England fit for purpose?

Featured, Reports | June 12, 2023

This report presents the views of England’s Directors of Public Health on the latest reforms to public health.

CHPI blog

The COVID Inquiry is the last chance to get to the bottom of the £2 billion contract with the private hospital sector during the pandemic

| November 13, 2024

One of the scandals of the COVID 19 pandemic which the current public inquiry has yet to explore is the failure by the government to use the private hospital sector to help the NHS and to reduce the growing backlog of elective care for NHS patients. Nowhere was this failure more obvious than in January 2021 at the peak of the second wave, when London’s NHS hospital services were collapsing under the weight of thousands of new COVID cases.   At this terrifying moment for the capital, the Medical Director of the NHS in London along...

Growing the private sector is no way to prevent the NHS becoming a poor service for poor people.

| August 13, 2024

Wes Streeting was spot on when he said during the election campaign that the biggest risk to the NHS is that it ends up becoming a ‘poor service for poor people’, where the middle classes are forced to pay for their own care, leaving fewer resources to treat sicker, poorer and unhealthier people in NHS hospitals. It is a risk that has grown significantly over the past decade, where cuts to the NHS have meant that more people are paying out of their own resources in the private sector for hip operations, social care, IVF and dentistry....

Investors are making a fortune from UK healthcare. Why is nobody holding private equity to account?

| March 13, 2024

From care homes to cancer treatment, millions are being siphoned out of the system every year – usually to the detriment of services

How private finance is crippling health and social care

| November 7, 2023

Private Finance Initiative (PFI) costs continue to grow in the NHS, even as other healthcare budgets are stretched further and profits extracted.

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