Hospitals sold for £500m as NHS waiting list crisis drives private healthcare demand
Outsourcing to cut waiting lists prompts healthcare property investor Assura to buy 14 private sites
July 2024
Eye doctors say private cataract operations have hurt the NHS
Public sector faces staffing and training problems and is less able to manage complex cases, survey finds
June 2024
Tory party CEO is director at cancer care firm benefiting from NHS waiting lists
How Wes Streeting could clear the NHS waiting list backlog and save money too
April 2024
‘No one’s being honest about it’: how NHS crisis forces patients to go private
Long waiting lists are creating a boom in the medical insurance market, leading to fears of a long-term change in attitudes to the health service
Private health insurance market grows by £385m in a year amid NHS crisis
Demand for private treatment booms as NHS waiting lists remain long, while more people also sign up for dental cover
Can Wes Streeting’s private sector plans save the NHS?
Wes Streeting defends Labour plan to use private sector to cut NHS backlog
‘Middle-class lefties’ won’t stop Labour using private sector to cut NHS backlog, Streeting says
March 2024
Wishing John Crace and the NHS a good recovery
Outsourcing NHS treatment to private sector leads to poorer patient care
Brief letters
When Edward Bond came to my school to see students put on The Tin Can People
The desperate struggle to access NHS treatment
Hopes of UK exit from recession boosted as GDP rises in January
Investors are making a fortune from UK healthcare. Why is nobody holding private equity to account?
David Rowland
The Guardian view on the privatisation of health: outsourcing will not save the NHS
An agonising wait for surgery – and NHS rationing – forced me to go private
‘My GP suggested it’: Britons explain why they went private for surgery
Private healthcare could become ‘a new normal’ as NHS grows weaker
February 2024
How best to brush up on children’s dental health
Letters: Confining sugars to main mealtimes would have a greater effect than brushing, writes Dr Julia Beaumont; plus letters from Dr John Puntis, Morag Curnow and Alasdair Gibson