(Private) Health check: The evolving relationship between private and NHS care

It's rare for a week, or seemingly sometimes a day, to go by without the NHS making the headlines for one reason or another. Doctors strikes over new contract conditions, calls from key people in the know to reform our funding system to better provide social care for our ageing population, private companies using legal loopholes to push up the price of commonly used drugs diverting much needed funds into private profits, the potential for radical service cuts to plug a £22 billion funding shortfall. The list goes on and undoubtedly will do, with each new story impacting the consumer v...