The UK’s private healthcare market

Health­care in the UK is some­times thought to be syn­ony­mous with the Nation­al Health Ser­vice. But pri­vate sec­tor hos­pi­tals and ser­vice providers treat well over 1 mil­lion patients in the UK every year. The pri­vate sec­tor also pro­vid­ed invalu­able sup­port to the NHS dur­ing the height of the Covid pan­dem­ic. This seg­ment of the UK’s health­care mar­ket is often over­looked, but should not be under­es­ti­mat­ed.