[2] In 2022 it pointed out that expenditure on staff, equipment and other capital projects can be cut by an NHS trust, but not their PFI payments.
The CHPI cautioned that a large increase in public funds for the sector could just produce bigger profits for operators, since many firms lack financial transparency.
[9] In July 2019 it produced a study on Conflicts of Interest between the NHS and the Private Hospital sector in England.
It found that more than 600 NHS doctors owned either shares or equipment or both in the private hospitals to which they referred patients.
It concluded that rather than the 7% of NHS expenditure which the government say was spent in this way in 2018-9, a fairer analysis would produce a figure of 26% – an increase of 20% over the previous year.