There has been a huge increase in the proportion of treatments done by the private sector compared to before the pandemic, and for the first time we’ve worked out which parts of the country send most patients to independent hospitals.
Find out more on the podcast, and read our full regional analysis here. Also in this week’s edition, we’ve got more on news that NHS capital budgets have been raided to pay for staff pay rises and the cost of strikes.
With Henry Anderson, Annabelle Collins and James Illman.
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