Private care’s suffering is revealed in statistics

By Leslie Berry

Official figures confirm the extent of the financial battering suffered so far by independent practitioners during the Covid-19 pandemic. It is estimated there has been an 84% drop in privately funded care. 

After a slight rise in the estimated number of overall privately funded episodes of care – 3% in January 2020 and 4% in February 2020 – in March, the data shows an estimated drop of 30% compared with 2019.

To follow was an estimated 84% drop between April 2019 and April 2020.