Profits from NHS England eye care outsourcing same as 100 PFI contracts, research finds | NHS
The profits made of treatment NHS Research shows that eye patients by five very large private companies, where they are already 100 with PFI Hospital contracts (PFI).
The disclosure has led the ministers to reduce “water” levels of profit by private sector operators when they take over the main public services.
Thinktank Research and Public Interest Center found the five major companies that offer cataract and other eye treatments to NHS in England It has achieved an estimated £ 169 million in a collective profit during 2023-24-as is the case in 100 PFI deals.
“For years the biggest scandal Lost money was in NHS PFI, With huge sums of taxpayer money leaks from the health system and profit accounts for private companies.
“But our research shows that the use of external sources of NHS eye care is a larger scandal. Five eye care companies have achieved the same profits in one year as companies that manage all NHS PFI 100 plans.”
The five are NewMedica, OpteGra, Sptedica, Chec and Aceses.
CHPI analysis also revealed:
* The average of the five profit margin for NHS is 32 %, and in one case 43 %, compared to 10 % created by PFI companies
* 68 million pounds from QUINTET combined 536 million pounds, which was paid by NHS that continued to pay interest on high -cost loans investors who use to buy companies
Roland added: “There are truly sums of water that leaks from NHS in the form of going to private companies that took over the NHS Eye Care administration – 169 million pounds, buying you a lot of health care, and this money has been allocated by Parliament to treat patients, and not to generate huge profits or pay interest on private stock loans. “
Roland according to 12.4 million pounds from the Great ICB Budget in 2023-24 became profits for the five companies. The equivalent amounts were 11.7 million pounds with Northern Comperia and the East ICB, 11.2 million pounds with Cheshire, MERSEYSIDE ICB, 8.1 million pounds with Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB.
The action deputy, Stella Krizi, a PFI activist, supported the CHPI invitation to the ministers to impose the maximum profits that private operators for public services can provide, as happened with social care services for children, to reduce excessive profit.
Crasey said: “Every penny concerns public services. It is now necessary that we need to control the profits achieved by private companies when exploiting public services.
“My colleagues will be shocked to hear that these companies make money more than [with] PFI contracts.
“When you save what you can do from the social welfare contract or children, but not with schools and hospitals, it is clear that there are lessons that must be learned.”
to divide health Social welfare (DHSC) consider the concerns raised by NHS England that the private eye lens companies have inflated their costs, as they conducted their operations that were not clinically suitable and offered incentives for optical specialists to refer patients to them, according to the Sunday Times newspaper last month.
A DHSC spokesman said: “While the independent sector has a role that plays in dealing with the accumulation of the waiting list, we will not tolerate any exaggerated or inferior care,” said a DHSC spokesman.
“All NHS patients should receive safe and high -quality care, whether they are treated by private service providers or directly by NHS.”
