The number of hospital procedures paid for by the NHS but carried out by the private sector has increased by nearly 11% over the space of a year, suggests a new report by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC). The HSCIC report states that private providers treated 345,200 NHS elective admissions with a procedure3 in 2011/12, a 32,900 (10.5 per cent) increase on 2010/11. This private activity accounted for 4.3 per cent of all NHS elective admissions with a procedure in 2011/12... Readmore