North-west picks up after small dip

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Our tour of NHS private patient units continues with Philip Housden analysing private patient revenue growth for 27 NHS acute trusts across the North-west region. This covers the conurbations of Greater Manchester and Liverpool, and counties of Cheshire, Lancashire and Cumbria.

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For this regional group of trusts, the accounts show that total private patient revenues increased in 2017-18, albeit not fully making up the reduction experienced the year before.

Total revenues are stated at £30.0m in 2017-18, up approximately 2.5% from £29.3m in 2016-17 (Figure 1, right). This level of income represents a small decline from 0.36 to 0.35% of these trusts’ total patient-related activity revenues. This remains below the combined national average outside of London of 0.5%.