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Our Director David Rowland writes for the LSE policy blog on why the NHS market regulations are allowing private equity companies to make huge sums from the NHS by providing cataract surgery and ADHD services, potentially at the expense of patients more in need. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
How privatising ADHD diagnosis robs the NHS of resources | LSE British Politics
ADHD assessments are soaring, many outsourced to the private sector, and the companies to which the NHS outsources these are enjoying huge profit margins. This is unsustainable.
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January 28, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Our Director David Rowland writes for the LSE policy blog on why the NHS market regulations are allowing private equity companies to make huge sums from the NHS by providing cataract surgery and ADHD services, potentially at the expense of patients more in need. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
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New Money Power Health podcast episode just out! I was thrilled to be joined by David Rowland from @chpithinktank.bsky.social where we discuss NHS privatisation and implications for transparency, accountability and health inequalities:
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open.spotify.com/episode/1nGv...
Episode 18: UK NHS privatisation, health and the public interest with David Rowland
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January 26, 2026 at 12:57 PM
New Money Power Health podcast episode just out! I was thrilled to be joined by David Rowland from @chpithinktank.bsky.social where we discuss NHS privatisation and implications for transparency, accountability and health inequalities:
open.spotify.com/episode/1nGv...
open.spotify.com/episode/1nGv...
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Using CHPI's calculator, our local BSW ICB shown to have spent £4,391,740 on 5 eye care firms, with £1,301,556 of #NHS income going to private profits.
Please read the report & find out how much NHS money drains into the profits of private eye care in your local area, then write to your ICB &/or MP
Please read the report & find out how much NHS money drains into the profits of private eye care in your local area, then write to your ICB &/or MP
If there was no profit leakage from the contracts with NHS private eye care companies, NHS ICBs collectively would move from a £109m deficit to a £60m surplus.
To find out more about the impact of this leakage on your local NHS visit our new website. www.chpi.org.uk/the-outsourc...
To find out more about the impact of this leakage on your local NHS visit our new website. www.chpi.org.uk/the-outsourc...
The Outsourcing of NHS Eye Care Profit Map — Centre for Health and the Public Interest
www.chpi.org.uk
May 6, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Using CHPI's calculator, our local BSW ICB shown to have spent £4,391,740 on 5 eye care firms, with £1,301,556 of #NHS income going to private profits.
Please read the report & find out how much NHS money drains into the profits of private eye care in your local area, then write to your ICB &/or MP
Please read the report & find out how much NHS money drains into the profits of private eye care in your local area, then write to your ICB &/or MP
If there was no profit leakage from the contracts with NHS private eye care companies, NHS ICBs collectively would move from a £109m deficit to a £60m surplus.
To find out more about the impact of this leakage on your local NHS visit our new website. www.chpi.org.uk/the-outsourc...
To find out more about the impact of this leakage on your local NHS visit our new website. www.chpi.org.uk/the-outsourc...
The Outsourcing of NHS Eye Care Profit Map — Centre for Health and the Public Interest
www.chpi.org.uk
May 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM
If there was no profit leakage from the contracts with NHS private eye care companies, NHS ICBs collectively would move from a £109m deficit to a £60m surplus.
To find out more about the impact of this leakage on your local NHS visit our new website. www.chpi.org.uk/the-outsourc...
To find out more about the impact of this leakage on your local NHS visit our new website. www.chpi.org.uk/the-outsourc...
PFI vs PF Eye? Our research shows that outsourced NHS eye care services leaks the same amount of profit in one year as all 100 NHS PFI schemes. From a public finance scandal it is bigger than PFI. Find out how much leaks out in your local area here: chpi.org.uk/the-outsourcin…
May 5, 2025 at 11:33 AM
PFI vs PF Eye? Our research shows that outsourced NHS eye care services leaks the same amount of profit in one year as all 100 NHS PFI schemes. From a public finance scandal it is bigger than PFI. Find out how much leaks out in your local area here: chpi.org.uk/the-outsourcin…
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Important report from @chpithinktank.bsky.social: outsourcing of NHS eye care to the private sector is delivering eye-watering profits. www.chpi.org.uk/reports/out-...
Out of Sight – the hidden profits and conflicts of interest behind the outsourcing of NHS cataract care. — Centre for Health and the Public Interest
This report is the third in a series of studies looking at the outsourcing of NHS cataract care to the private sector. In this report we look at how the very rapid growth in private secto...
www.chpi.org.uk
April 26, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Important report from @chpithinktank.bsky.social: outsourcing of NHS eye care to the private sector is delivering eye-watering profits. www.chpi.org.uk/reports/out-...
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Under rules introduced by Lansley reforms and built on by successive Govts, companies don't need contracts with NHS areas. Coupled with optometrist referrals it's an ideal model to "drive patient flow" to their clinics. @chpithinktank.bsky.social found 84k ops done without contracts in 3yrs
The NHS Counter Fraud Authority has been called in to examine billing irregularities in the private cataract market, which has grown 400% since 2019. 131 private clinics have opened since 2019, with costs for the NHS doubling over the same period: www.thetimes.com/article/245f...
Private cataract clinics investigated while making millions from NHS
Health service bosses fear price inflation and unnecessary operations are costing the taxpayer. Now a fraud unit is getting involved
www.thetimes.com
April 20, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Under rules introduced by Lansley reforms and built on by successive Govts, companies don't need contracts with NHS areas. Coupled with optometrist referrals it's an ideal model to "drive patient flow" to their clinics. @chpithinktank.bsky.social found 84k ops done without contracts in 3yrs
5 companies have made £169 million in profit in just one year from providing eye care services to the NHS. That is more than is made each year (on average) by all 100 NHS PFI schemes. Read our latest report here covered in today's Sunday Times: www.chpi.org.uk/reports/out-...
April 20, 2025 at 7:59 AM
5 companies have made £169 million in profit in just one year from providing eye care services to the NHS. That is more than is made each year (on average) by all 100 NHS PFI schemes. Read our latest report here covered in today's Sunday Times: www.chpi.org.uk/reports/out-...
Women are being forced down the private route for gynae care because of the underfunding of the NHS. The private sector knows this and so will turn it to their advantage including by raising prices. Our Director in today's Guardian. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Women paying up to £11,000 for a hysterectomy amid NHS delays
Claims private sector taking advantage of long waits as cost of procedure rises sharply
www.theguardian.com
January 24, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Women are being forced down the private route for gynae care because of the underfunding of the NHS. The private sector knows this and so will turn it to their advantage including by raising prices. Our Director in today's Guardian. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
The idea that using the private sector adds genuine additional capacity to support the NHS is "utter nonsense" says our Director David Rowland. The private sector is entirely reliant on NHS doctors to do any operations. Without them it would collapse overnight www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
January 10, 2025 at 9:44 AM
The idea that using the private sector adds genuine additional capacity to support the NHS is "utter nonsense" says our Director David Rowland. The private sector is entirely reliant on NHS doctors to do any operations. Without them it would collapse overnight www.theguardian.com/society/2025...