Private Patients
08/02/2008
Director of Service Delivery for Diagnostics and Specialities at the
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Divisional, Adrian Bamford:
"Historically one of the main reasons for going private was to reduce
waiting time for treatment. Now it is more about having a single room
on a private ward with a greater choice of food and a guarantee that
you will be operated on and cared for by a consultant. Today NHS wait
times are much shorter and it is often as quick being treated as an NHS
patient as going privately"
"The Trust has three private wards; two at CGH and one at GRH which
is currently shared with Gynaecology. We bill patients for the hospital
fee component of a private episode and we are not involved in setting
or collecting the Consultants fees, however we will only take a private
patient if they have a consultant who has agreed to treat them privately.
"There is little if any interaction between the NHS and private
patient streams. Private patient income is now just another income stream
to us and that flow of patients doesn't worsen or improve the journey
or experience of NHS patients".
"There is a significant contribution from private patient income
to the finances of the Trust and this is used to invest in the NHS side
of the business each year paying for facilities, staffing and equipment
as an example the Trust can fund over 50 extra nurse as a result of the
contribution made by private work".
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