Capital feat for London’s PPUs

Our analysis of England’s NHS trust private patient earnings by region has completed its ten-region cycle, so Philip Housden returns to the capital for updated data from the latest published trust annual accounts, and market news.

The long-term trend for London to be the engine of growth for the whole NHS PPU sector has continued, if not accelerated, over the past year.  

Revenues for 22 trusts within greater London climbed to £402m, up 8.4% from £371m in 2016-17.  The extent to which growth continues to be skewed between London and the rest of England is shown in figures 1 and 2.