PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Independent Healthcare Providers Network: Contracts (23 June 2020)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the covid-19 contract for all inpatient capacity in England with the Independent Healthcare Providers Network expires; and whether he plans to renew it.

Asked by:
Dame Harriett Baldwin (Conservative)

National Health Service patients are benefitting from an unprecedented partnership with private hospitals in the United Kingdom as we battle the COVID-19 outbreak. The Government has provided additional funding to the NHS to allow them to continue to use additional hospital capacity from the independent sector until the end of March 2021.

Answered by:
Edward Argar (Conservative)
28 July 2020