The insurance gap is seen to narrowing as self-pay admissions decline for the fourth consecutive quarter, while registered insured admissions have hit its highest post-pandemic total, research by Broadstone found.
The independent consultancy said the decline in self-pay admissions follows inflation and the rising cost of living preventing customers from affording private medical treatment. As of last year, Broadstone has tracked the changes in self-pay and insured private medical treatments with NHS waiting lists since the first quarter of 2019. According to the consultancy, the backlog for NHS treatments in the third quarter of 2022 rose to 169% of levels recorded in the first quarter of 2019, and self-pay admissions jumped in line with this towards the end of the pandemic. Meanwhile, insur...
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