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Millions are being squandered on private NHS contract profits
Staff on a NHS hospital ward, October 3, 2014
PRIVATE firms have pocketed an estimated £6.7 billion in profits on contracts paid for out of NHS budgets over the past dozen years — that’s over £10 million a week — campaign group We Own It says.
And 78 per cent — £5.2bn — of those total profits are for contracts for services that could be provided in-house by the NHS.
Its analysis is based on 72,258 private contracts between January 2012 and May 2024.
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