General Overview

• In 2018-2019, the NHS has spent overall $11.5 billion on the independant sector.
• The Independent Healthcare Providers Network NHS Confederation is "the single representative body for independent sector healthcare providers."
•  The BBC reports that "515,000 non-urgent operations and surgical procedures were carried out by private clinicians for the NHS in 2017, about 6% of the total."
• In April 2019, "the government have awarded £35 million of privatised contracts in just the last six weeks with a further £127 million out to tender."
• In 2017, 267 out of the 386 contracts went to private care providers. This is 70% of the contracts in England that year.

Private Clinical Services in the UK

There are many private clinical services that exist in the UK. Some of these are found listed below.
•  Virgin (GP surgeries)
•  Serco (GP surgeries)
•  Care UK (GP surgeries)



Annual Reports from NHS

• The England NHS annual report for 2018/19 does not include any information about who or what private sector companies are receiving funds.
• The same holds true for the digital NHS annual report for 2018/19. There is no information on independent, or private sector funding or expendatures aside from ambiguous mentions that this is done as a whole, or that revenues are broken down into types, such as dental and other procedures.