Privatisation of healthcare.
UK patients unable to get dental care after ‘eye-watering’ rise in private fees.
£775 for root canal work, £435 for tooth extraction, £325 for a white filling.
People pull their own teeth, face health hazards, companies profit.
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
UK patients unable to get dental care after ‘eye-watering’ rise in private fees.
£775 for root canal work, £435 for tooth extraction, £325 for a white filling.
People pull their own teeth, face health hazards, companies profit.
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
UK patients unable to get dental care after ‘eye-watering’ rise in private fees
Exclusive: warning that lack of NHS dentists and soaring cost of private work puts essential care out of reach for many
www.theguardian.com
January 1, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Privatisation of healthcare.
UK patients unable to get dental care after ‘eye-watering’ rise in private fees.
£775 for root canal work, £435 for tooth extraction, £325 for a white filling.
People pull their own teeth, face health hazards, companies profit.
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
UK patients unable to get dental care after ‘eye-watering’ rise in private fees.
£775 for root canal work, £435 for tooth extraction, £325 for a white filling.
People pull their own teeth, face health hazards, companies profit.
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
Watchdog warns of risks to patients as private equity stake in US healthcare grows.
Profits extracted, staff/wage cuts, low investment, asset-stripping, poor patient care
Yet UK handing NHS services to private equity, which is draining public purse.
Why are govts intoxicated with private equity?
Profits extracted, staff/wage cuts, low investment, asset-stripping, poor patient care
Yet UK handing NHS services to private equity, which is draining public purse.
Why are govts intoxicated with private equity?
Watchdog warns of risks to patients as private equity’s stake in US healthcare grows
New report details slew of ventures between private equity and non-profits and calls for greater government oversight
www.theguardian.com
July 7, 2026 at 7:05 AM
Watchdog warns of risks to patients as private equity stake in US healthcare grows.
Profits extracted, staff/wage cuts, low investment, asset-stripping, poor patient care
Yet UK handing NHS services to private equity, which is draining public purse.
Why are govts intoxicated with private equity?
Profits extracted, staff/wage cuts, low investment, asset-stripping, poor patient care
Yet UK handing NHS services to private equity, which is draining public purse.
Why are govts intoxicated with private equity?
“For patients struggling to access NHS dental care, and for those who choose to go private, the dramatic rise in private dental costs places essential care out of reach for many”
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
UK patients unable to get dental care after ‘eye-watering’ rise in private fees
Exclusive: warning that lack of NHS dentists and soaring cost of private work puts essential care out of reach for many
www.theguardian.com
January 1, 2025 at 11:13 AM
“For patients struggling to access NHS dental care, and for those who choose to go private, the dramatic rise in private dental costs places essential care out of reach for many”
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
Private equity in healthcare puts patients’ lives in danger, US studies show.
Wage/Staff cuts, low investment, profiteering; higher deaths, medical complications, infections and readmissions.
No healthcare improvement.
Yet UK handing more of the NHS to PE.
Healthcare must not be a profit centre.
Wage/Staff cuts, low investment, profiteering; higher deaths, medical complications, infections and readmissions.
No healthcare improvement.
Yet UK handing more of the NHS to PE.
Healthcare must not be a profit centre.
Private equity in health care puts patients’ lives in danger, studies show
Recent studies suggest that private equity deals lead to more patient deaths and complications, among other adverse health outcomes.
usrtk.org
May 5, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Private equity in healthcare puts patients’ lives in danger, US studies show.
Wage/Staff cuts, low investment, profiteering; higher deaths, medical complications, infections and readmissions.
No healthcare improvement.
Yet UK handing more of the NHS to PE.
Healthcare must not be a profit centre.
Wage/Staff cuts, low investment, profiteering; higher deaths, medical complications, infections and readmissions.
No healthcare improvement.
Yet UK handing more of the NHS to PE.
Healthcare must not be a profit centre.
UK patients unable to get dental care after ‘eye-watering’ rise in private fees
UK patients unable to get dental care after ‘eye-watering’ rise in private fees
Exclusive: warning that lack of NHS dentists and soaring cost of private work puts essential care out of reach for many
How soaring fees for private care are deepening England’s dentistry crisis
Private dentists are cashing in on the scarcity of NHS…
www.theguardian.com
December 31, 2024 at 6:19 PM
UK patients unable to get dental care after ‘eye-watering’ rise in private fees
Did you know that Wes Streeting has removed a ‘cost cap’ from private companies delivering NHS care- therefore giving them special treatment over publicly-owned NHS services?🚨
Imagine if publicly-owned NHS services had an unlimited budget to treat patients!
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Imagine if publicly-owned NHS services had an unlimited budget to treat patients!
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
NHS scraps plan to cap costs of bringing down waiting lists
Patients in England can expect to be seen quicker as cost-cutting plans that capped the amount paid to private hospitals for treating NHS patients are abandoned
www.thetimes.com
April 7, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Did you know that Wes Streeting has removed a ‘cost cap’ from private companies delivering NHS care- therefore giving them special treatment over publicly-owned NHS services?🚨
Imagine if publicly-owned NHS services had an unlimited budget to treat patients!
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Imagine if publicly-owned NHS services had an unlimited budget to treat patients!
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
US experience of private equity controlled hospitals.
A pattern of profiteering, inadequate staffing, service cuts, diminished care.
Yet UK govt is handing hospitals, GP surgeries to private equity.
Say no to privatisation of the NHS.
yaledailynews.com/blog/2024/11...
A pattern of profiteering, inadequate staffing, service cuts, diminished care.
Yet UK govt is handing hospitals, GP surgeries to private equity.
Say no to privatisation of the NHS.
yaledailynews.com/blog/2024/11...
ANALYSIS: When private equity in healthcare goes wrong
Experts say private equity-run hospitals often leave patients behind. The News looked into private equity and its role in Yale New Haven Health’s acquisition deal with Prospect Medical Holdings.
yaledailynews.com
November 25, 2024 at 8:26 AM
US experience of private equity controlled hospitals.
A pattern of profiteering, inadequate staffing, service cuts, diminished care.
Yet UK govt is handing hospitals, GP surgeries to private equity.
Say no to privatisation of the NHS.
yaledailynews.com/blog/2024/11...
A pattern of profiteering, inadequate staffing, service cuts, diminished care.
Yet UK govt is handing hospitals, GP surgeries to private equity.
Say no to privatisation of the NHS.
yaledailynews.com/blog/2024/11...
Curse of Private Equity
US evidence shows:
When private equity incentives collide with clinical care, patients—especially those who are sicker, poorer, or harder to treat—are more likely to be killed or harmed.
Yet UK handing more of the NHS to PE, enabling it to make profits.
US evidence shows:
When private equity incentives collide with clinical care, patients—especially those who are sicker, poorer, or harder to treat—are more likely to be killed or harmed.
Yet UK handing more of the NHS to PE, enabling it to make profits.
When profit kills: How private equity is eroding health care
Peer-reviewed studies link private equity takeovers to more deaths and medical complications in nearly every corner of healthcare.
usrtk.org
March 9, 2026 at 8:14 AM
Curse of Private Equity
US evidence shows:
When private equity incentives collide with clinical care, patients—especially those who are sicker, poorer, or harder to treat—are more likely to be killed or harmed.
Yet UK handing more of the NHS to PE, enabling it to make profits.
US evidence shows:
When private equity incentives collide with clinical care, patients—especially those who are sicker, poorer, or harder to treat—are more likely to be killed or harmed.
Yet UK handing more of the NHS to PE, enabling it to make profits.
Private equity is a horror story for the NHS – one fifth of budget goes to it.
Privatised services treat 10% of patients, 3% in 2011.
59,000 private contracts in the NHS.
30%-40% of money vanishes in profits, longer queues persist.
End privatisation.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Privatised services treat 10% of patients, 3% in 2011.
59,000 private contracts in the NHS.
30%-40% of money vanishes in profits, longer queues persist.
End privatisation.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Private equity is a horror story for the NHS - yet one fifth of the health service budget goes to it
Numerous studies have found private equity is associated with worse patient outcomes due to NHS privatisation - and 'preventable deaths'
www.thecanary.co
November 27, 2024 at 7:03 AM
Private equity is a horror story for the NHS – one fifth of budget goes to it.
Privatised services treat 10% of patients, 3% in 2011.
59,000 private contracts in the NHS.
30%-40% of money vanishes in profits, longer queues persist.
End privatisation.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Privatised services treat 10% of patients, 3% in 2011.
59,000 private contracts in the NHS.
30%-40% of money vanishes in profits, longer queues persist.
End privatisation.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Private equity takeover of US hospitals led to rise in patient deaths.
Cuts to staffing/investment; high debt, profiteering; worse patient outcomes.
More deaths in nursing homes, increased post-operative complications
Why is UK Govt handing the NHS to PE? Why no investigation of the impact of PE?
Cuts to staffing/investment; high debt, profiteering; worse patient outcomes.
More deaths in nursing homes, increased post-operative complications
Why is UK Govt handing the NHS to PE? Why no investigation of the impact of PE?
Private equity takeover of hospitals led to rise in Medicare emergency patient deaths, says study
Study found seven more deaths per 10,000 patients in private equity hospitals’ versus non-private equity hospitals
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Private equity takeover of US hospitals led to rise in patient deaths.
Cuts to staffing/investment; high debt, profiteering; worse patient outcomes.
More deaths in nursing homes, increased post-operative complications
Why is UK Govt handing the NHS to PE? Why no investigation of the impact of PE?
Cuts to staffing/investment; high debt, profiteering; worse patient outcomes.
More deaths in nursing homes, increased post-operative complications
Why is UK Govt handing the NHS to PE? Why no investigation of the impact of PE?
Private healthcare being evil just not limited to the US… do you know in the UK when they fuck up an operation and intensive care is needed they call an ambulance to get the patient sent to an NHS hospital because having an ICU on site isn’t profitable
December 4, 2024 at 9:59 PM
Private healthcare being evil just not limited to the US… do you know in the UK when they fuck up an operation and intensive care is needed they call an ambulance to get the patient sent to an NHS hospital because having an ICU on site isn’t profitable
A huge part of the impetus for Dorley as a story is the history of centralised healthcare apparatus in the UK coming for every provider of private/independent trans care and shutting them down by any means necessary, shunting patients towards an NHS system designed to keep them from transition.
November 3, 2025 at 11:48 AM
A huge part of the impetus for Dorley as a story is the history of centralised healthcare apparatus in the UK coming for every provider of private/independent trans care and shutting them down by any means necessary, shunting patients towards an NHS system designed to keep them from transition.
UK health minister Wes Streeting "won't shrink away from opening NHS to private sector". Such courage. More than 60% of donations accepted by Streeting come from individuals with links to the private healthcare industry.
Wes Streeting: I won’t shrink away from opening NHS to private sector
Health Secretary says help is vital to get patients treated and to tackle ‘national emergency’ facing UK
www.telegraph.co.uk
June 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
UK health minister Wes Streeting "won't shrink away from opening NHS to private sector". Such courage. More than 60% of donations accepted by Streeting come from individuals with links to the private healthcare industry.
Private equity reduces patient healthcare, enriches investors, US Senate report finds.
Cuts staffing/wages, profiteers, neglects investment, harms patients.
Yet UK handed, social care, GP surgeries, NHS to PE.
30%-40% of money vanishes in profits.
End the scam.
www.nbcnews.com/news/investi...
Cuts staffing/wages, profiteers, neglects investment, harms patients.
Yet UK handed, social care, GP surgeries, NHS to PE.
30%-40% of money vanishes in profits.
End the scam.
www.nbcnews.com/news/investi...
Private equity reduces patient care while enriching investors, Senate report finds
The bipartisan investigation of hospital systems purchased by Apollo Global Management and Leonard Green & Partners reinforced the findings of past academic research.
www.nbcnews.com
January 9, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Private equity reduces patient healthcare, enriches investors, US Senate report finds.
Cuts staffing/wages, profiteers, neglects investment, harms patients.
Yet UK handed, social care, GP surgeries, NHS to PE.
30%-40% of money vanishes in profits.
End the scam.
www.nbcnews.com/news/investi...
Cuts staffing/wages, profiteers, neglects investment, harms patients.
Yet UK handed, social care, GP surgeries, NHS to PE.
30%-40% of money vanishes in profits.
End the scam.
www.nbcnews.com/news/investi...
US Nursing Home Fines Skyrocket After Private Equity Buyouts.
Profiteering, cuts in staffing, wages, investment, endanger patient lives.
More patients hospitalized for preventable conditions, higher mortality rates.
Yet UK govt handing GP surgeries, care homes, NHS to PE
nurse.org/news/nursing...
Profiteering, cuts in staffing, wages, investment, endanger patient lives.
More patients hospitalized for preventable conditions, higher mortality rates.
Yet UK govt handing GP surgeries, care homes, NHS to PE
nurse.org/news/nursing...
Nursing Home Fines Skyrocket After Private Equity Buyouts, Studies Find
Explore the growing concerns over private equity ownership in healthcare. Rising nursing home fines, staffing cuts, and quality declines spark urgent debates on balancing profits and patient care.
nurse.org
January 5, 2025 at 10:17 AM
US Nursing Home Fines Skyrocket After Private Equity Buyouts.
Profiteering, cuts in staffing, wages, investment, endanger patient lives.
More patients hospitalized for preventable conditions, higher mortality rates.
Yet UK govt handing GP surgeries, care homes, NHS to PE
nurse.org/news/nursing...
Profiteering, cuts in staffing, wages, investment, endanger patient lives.
More patients hospitalized for preventable conditions, higher mortality rates.
Yet UK govt handing GP surgeries, care homes, NHS to PE
nurse.org/news/nursing...
In Both the UK and Canada Conservatives have tried repeatedly to get the public system tied into a private system so that they can steal resources from the public system for private care, making a 2 or 3 tier system where public patients get crap care from the same teams rich people pay less to get
September 26, 2026 at 2:09 PM
In Both the UK and Canada Conservatives have tried repeatedly to get the public system tied into a private system so that they can steal resources from the public system for private care, making a 2 or 3 tier system where public patients get crap care from the same teams rich people pay less to get
Yet still Labour think more private involvement in the NHS will help?
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
UK patients unable to get dental care after ‘eye-watering’ rise in private fees
Exclusive: warning that lack of NHS dentists and soaring cost of private work puts essential care out of reach for many
www.theguardian.com
December 31, 2024 at 7:53 PM
Yet still Labour think more private involvement in the NHS will help?
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
Curse of Private Equity.
US mothers billed for maternity services to they didn't receive or didn't want.
Staff cuts, low investment. Unsafe medical practices
Mothers and insurers told different stories. Objecting staff silenced.
UK govt expanding PE role in healthcare.
US mothers billed for maternity services to they didn't receive or didn't want.
Staff cuts, low investment. Unsafe medical practices
Mothers and insurers told different stories. Objecting staff silenced.
UK govt expanding PE role in healthcare.
Overbilling at women's health care group padded private equity profits while costing patients, insider says
The Florida attorney general’s office said it's investigating the company, Florida Woman Care.
www.nbcnews.com
September 20, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Curse of Private Equity.
US mothers billed for maternity services to they didn't receive or didn't want.
Staff cuts, low investment. Unsafe medical practices
Mothers and insurers told different stories. Objecting staff silenced.
UK govt expanding PE role in healthcare.
US mothers billed for maternity services to they didn't receive or didn't want.
Staff cuts, low investment. Unsafe medical practices
Mothers and insurers told different stories. Objecting staff silenced.
UK govt expanding PE role in healthcare.
I have seen similar results from UK private testing. Patients understandably expect tests they see heavily advertised to be accurate and meaningful. Often they aren't
US companies providing gut-microbiome home-testing kits can give consumers very different results. That’s the finding of researchers from the University of Maryland and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. cen.acs.org/biological-c...
#chemsky 🧪
#chemsky 🧪
March 9, 2026 at 9:25 PM
I have seen similar results from UK private testing. Patients understandably expect tests they see heavily advertised to be accurate and meaningful. Often they aren't
I'll point out a hypocrisy no one is talking about.
Private Doctors in the UK are being paid 20-30% more for doing the same job as NHS doctors
The NHS is sending more and more patients every year to these Private Doctors and there are company profits on top as well
Do you see?
Private Doctors in the UK are being paid 20-30% more for doing the same job as NHS doctors
The NHS is sending more and more patients every year to these Private Doctors and there are company profits on top as well
Do you see?
December 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I'll point out a hypocrisy no one is talking about.
Private Doctors in the UK are being paid 20-30% more for doing the same job as NHS doctors
The NHS is sending more and more patients every year to these Private Doctors and there are company profits on top as well
Do you see?
Private Doctors in the UK are being paid 20-30% more for doing the same job as NHS doctors
The NHS is sending more and more patients every year to these Private Doctors and there are company profits on top as well
Do you see?
Shortage of NHS stroke specialists in England resulting in death or disability.
Between 10,000 and 20,000 patients died or sustained a serious disability because of treatment delays.
Lives destroyed by fiscal rules, austerity, appeasement of the rich and forcing people to go private.
Between 10,000 and 20,000 patients died or sustained a serious disability because of treatment delays.
Lives destroyed by fiscal rules, austerity, appeasement of the rich and forcing people to go private.
Shortage of NHS stroke specialists resulting in thousands dead or disabled, say doctors
Exclusive: Lack of consultants in UK health service means patients do not get drugs or surgery in time, say senior medics
www.theguardian.com
January 6, 2026 at 7:57 AM
Shortage of NHS stroke specialists in England resulting in death or disability.
Between 10,000 and 20,000 patients died or sustained a serious disability because of treatment delays.
Lives destroyed by fiscal rules, austerity, appeasement of the rich and forcing people to go private.
Between 10,000 and 20,000 patients died or sustained a serious disability because of treatment delays.
Lives destroyed by fiscal rules, austerity, appeasement of the rich and forcing people to go private.
Hundreds of thousands of UK cancer patients forced to pay for private treatment
Hundreds of thousands of UK cancer patients forced to pay for private treatment
Exclusive: As NHS targets are being missed nearly 300,000 people paid for chemotherapy in last five years
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2024 at 6:04 AM
Hundreds of thousands of UK cancer patients forced to pay for private treatment
"Private equity’s penetration of our health service is fast outrunning the regulatory guardrails needed to protect patients, workers and the public interest."
As US private equity expands across UK healthcare, concerns over oversight grow.
Full story: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
As US private equity expands across UK healthcare, concerns over oversight grow.
Full story: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
July 30, 2026 at 10:03 AM
"Private equity’s penetration of our health service is fast outrunning the regulatory guardrails needed to protect patients, workers and the public interest."
As US private equity expands across UK healthcare, concerns over oversight grow.
Full story: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
As US private equity expands across UK healthcare, concerns over oversight grow.
Full story: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
This is a reminder, that now, under Labour and @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social - 20% of NHS funding (from us the tax payer) - gets rediverted to the private sector.
In return they see 10% of patients (the simplest cases no less).
This is not a good business model.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
In return they see 10% of patients (the simplest cases no less).
This is not a good business model.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Private equity is a horror story for the NHS - yet one fifth of the health service budget goes to it
Numerous studies have found private equity is associated with worse patient outcomes due to NHS privatisation - and 'preventable deaths'
www.thecanary.co
December 28, 2024 at 8:34 AM
This is a reminder, that now, under Labour and @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social - 20% of NHS funding (from us the tax payer) - gets rediverted to the private sector.
In return they see 10% of patients (the simplest cases no less).
This is not a good business model.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
In return they see 10% of patients (the simplest cases no less).
This is not a good business model.
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...