Will private healthcare benefit from NHS cuts?

The talk of cuts in the NHS is naturally worrying for some - there are bound to be a few bureaucrats concerned about their future - but also good news for others, eg companies who carry out healthcare in the private sector.

While private healthcare in the UK is set to grow in the coming years, it isn't necessarily at the expense of the NHS. In a lot of cases private healthcare actually reduces the burden on the NHS, for instance if I went private for a minor operation it would be the NHS who would benefit as I would still have paid my taxes towards the NHS.

So, it's not as simple as one set of professionals taking work off another. But as the new NHS takes shape durung the coming years, a clearer picture will emerge of what the balance of services is liekly to be.

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