PPUs bounce back from Covid-19

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The Royal Marsden weathers Covid-19 storm

Although travel restrictions and fear of Coronavirus has stopped patients travelling from overseas into the UK, the specialist cancer hospital earned £22m from private patients in the April, May, June quarter, trust board papers reveal. 

The Financial Times recently published annual accounts show that private patient income in 2019-20 was £132m, up 10.8% from £121m the previous year. 

It is the highest in the NHS, comprising 19% of all English trusts’ private income and 36.3% of total trust revenues.