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Hundreds of England’s NHS consultants have shares in private clinics

Exclusive: more than £1bn in revenue generated since 2015 from ‘often opaque’ arrangements, says thinktank

Hundreds of NHS consultants are shareholders in profit-making joint ventures with private healthcare firms, in arrangements that have generated more than £1bn in revenues since 2015, it has emerged.

The Centre for Health and the Public Interest (CHPI), an independent thinktank, has identified 481 consultants in England with shares in 34 private ventures set up in partnership with providers ranging from the huge US healthcare firm HCA to Specsavers opticians. The vast majority of these consultants – 73% – are NHS doctors.

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