Independent Healthcare Providers Network

The Independent Healthcare Providers Network (IHPN), formerly known as the NHS Partners Network, is a representative body for independent sector healthcare providers in the United Kingdom.

The body was formed in 2005 to provide a voice for private health companies, and was initially made up of organisations involved in the government's Independent Sector Treatment Centre programme.

Since Autumn 2008 its membership has expanded to include independent sector healthcare organisations providing NHS patient care in primary and community care, in addition to diagnostics and acute and elective surgery.

[4] The organisation has a strategic council which includes leaders of some of its largest members.

In March 2020, the IHPN brokered the block-booking by NHS England of almost all services and facilities at the country's private hospitals.