Almost 400 NHS consultants own shares in private hospitals to which they refer patients, exposing them to a potential conflict between their income and patients’ best interests, new research reveals. In all, 371 senior doctors have a stake in some of the private hospitals that are earning more than £1bn a year from NHS trusts. NHS trusts are sending growing numbers of their own patients to be treated in private hospitals because their own services are so busy that they cannot treat them themselves. The care is usually provided by NHS doctors doing private work in their own time. NHS England to ban GPs from advertising private services Read more“I’m appalled that so many consultants have shares in private hospitals they work in.

Source: The Guardian June 30, 2019 17:03 UTC