Should highlight that many private hospitals are attached or "next door" to NHS hospitals. With surgical "complications" (post-infection, mid-op crash, etc), many of these private hospitals will discharge their patients to the NHS hospital for care.
How? Because they can. It keeps costs down and the NHS can't [0] refuse to treat somebody, even if they're coming from a private surgical ward.
I'm not saying that's what's happening here, but this is one reason why private elective care is so cheap in the UK. The other being that they have to compete with £0.
How? Because they can. It keeps costs down and the NHS can't [0] refuse to treat somebody, even if they're coming from a private surgical ward.
I'm not saying that's what's happening here, but this is one reason why private elective care is so cheap in the UK. The other being that they have to compete with £0.
[0] https://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/2572.aspx?CategoryID=96