Scotland’s PPU income has gloomy atmosphere

This month, it is the turn of Scotland to feature in Philip Housden’s continuing series reviewing the range of NHS services available to private patients.

The NHS in Scotland is organised into 14 health boards which manage all healthcare services in a single management structure. The most recently published annual accounts of these 14 organisations have been used in this article.

In Scotland, total private patient revenues are showing a steadily decreasing trend.   

In 2018-19, these totalled an estimated £2.17m, down 36% and £1.2m from £3.38m the year before. 

This represents only 0.03% of the total revenues of NHS Scotland and well below Wales (0.17%) – covered in our last issue – and the 0.46% average for NHS trusts in England outside of London.