In our evidence we explain how lives could have been saved had the NHS compelled the private hospital sector to support the pandemic response rather than treating thousands of private fee paying patients.

This report examines the impact that the impact of the outsourcing of NHS funded cataract care to the private sector has had on NHS patients facing irreversible sight loss, staff training and the financial viability of NHS eye care departments.

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

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.

As the current pandemic has shown an effective, well organised accountable public health system is not only key to controlling the spread of a disease – permitting the wider economy and public services to function – but is also vital in addressing growing health inequalities.

A two year study examining the financial impacts of the pandemic on UK care homes for older people and their staff.

This report analyses the contractual mechanisms of NHSE’s £2bn+ deal with the private hospital sector during COVID, building on our 2021 report ‘For Whose Benefit’ using newly obtained activity data and the contracts themselves.

This analysis maps the network of joint venture businesses between NHS medical consultants and private healthcare companies, building on the CHPI’s 2019 report ‘Pounds for Patients’ which looked at financial incentives and conflicts of interest in the UK’s private healthcare system.

This report analyses the government’s use of the private hospital sector to alleviate the burden on the NHS during the first year of the COVID pandemic.

This report looks at how changes to the NHS in England over the past decade have created greater risks of abuses of power, and how reforms to local commissioning are exacerbating them. Since 2012, membership organisations made up of General Practitioners (GPs), called Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), have managed most of the NHS’ budget in England. They are responsible for purchasing £78 billion of healthcare services on behalf of the NHS. At the same time, these same GPs are independent contractors to the NHS and are in receipt of around £8.5 billion of NHS funding each year.

This report identifies where each pound that goes into the care home industry ends up by using a forensic study of the accounts of over 830 adult care home companies, including the 26 largest providers. The companies examined have a combined income of £10.4bn, representing 68% of the total estimated market value for independent providers in 2017.

This report has been compiled between May 2018 and May 2019 using publicly available data on the websites of private hospitals, NHS Trusts and Companies House. 

This report analyses five options available to policy makers to address the problems caused by existing PFI schemes. For each option, it quantifies its impact and assesses its advantages, disadvantages, and feasibility.

In this report, we look at the less-than-expected growth in NHS treatment of private patients since the 2012 Health and Social Care Act, and consider whether the practice has been an effective means of generating additional revenues, and how it might impact on the availability of care for NHS patients.

This report sets out a series of recommendations to reform the private hospital sector in England following the Ian Paterson scandal, which left over 500 hundred women who underwent unnecessary breast surgery in two private hospitals maimed and injured.

This report describes the role that privatisation has played in the decline of the provision and quality of adult social care. It outlines a number of reforms which could help reverse the decline in the sector.

This report uses findings from the Care Quality Commission’s new inspection regime for private hospitals to show that there continue to be risks to patient safety associated with the distinctive nature of private hospitals in England, compared with the NHS. In addition, the lack of systematic collection and reporting of patient safety data raises questions about the adequacy of the CQC’s new approach to regulating private hospitals.

This report analyses the financing structure of the new Private Finance 2 scheme and finds that it is likely to increase costs to the NHS. Restructuring the balance of debt and risk capital would increase the rate of return to private investors by 15% compared to the original Private Finance Initiative.

This report finds that reforms made to the NHS following the Health and Social Care Act of 2012 have impacted upon its ability to deal effectively with a possible flu pandemic.

This report looks at how the market in social care services in England provides the best available example for policy makers of what happens to the quality of care and the terms and conditions of the care workforce when competitive pressures are used to bring about a reduction in the cost of care to the taxpayer. It calls for public debate and the development of informed mitigation strategies to prevent this happening in the new market in the NHS in England.