Users asked to compare NHS vs private

Private patients are being quizzed by university researchers as part of a project exploring what NHS and private hospitals ‘think and know about activities that help to support and improve high standards of care’.

Researchers from the Univer­sities of Manchester, York and Birmingham are inviting patients or carers to take part in a one-hour interview on clinical governance for which they are paid £25.

Participants or an individual they look after must have received care for the same health issue in both a private and NHS hospital in the last three years – excluding mental health services.

They must have had an overnight stay in either or both an NHS and private hospital or may have been transferred from a private hospital to an NHS hospital.