General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

The private sector are paid from the same National Tariff as for NHS hospitals.
The National Tariff carries a price for each procedure with A & E departments remunerated from a blended payment system which covers the wide variation in activity.
Each NHS hospital pays a dividend to the NHS each year that is effectively the same as a dividend for a shareholding in a private or listed company. For a non NHS hospital the NHS dividend,embodied in the National Tariff, is their profit margin from the NHS work they undertake.
The nearer we get to a general election then the number of procedures sub contracted to private hospitals will grow exponentially. The 4.5 million strong waiting list will be down to nearer 2 million.