Private health firm gives GPs operation price list for impatient patients

Campaigners alarmed after Care UK sends letters to hundreds of NHS doctors in west of England

A private healthcare company has sent letters to hundreds of GPs setting out a price list of operations they could offer their patients to beat NHS delays and restrictions.

Care UK, which runs nine centres offering treatment on the NHS, said it intended to use spare theatre time to provide “self pay” procedures ranging from earwax removal to hip replacements.

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