More private healthcare means less public- not that Streeting caresLogic determines that the more private healthcare a society has, the less public healthcare there can be. So the very existence of private healthcare takes those workers, infrastructure and technology away from public healthcare. So it would be more beneficial to simply end the private provision of healthcare altogether, nationalise private healthcare and permanently lower costs for the NHS and patients. Austerity, the NHS and the private healthcare boomThe value of the UK’s private healthcare market rose to a record £12.4bn in 2023, according to the report from LaingBuisson. The NHS also paid for £3.5bn of such private healthcare procedures because the government has withheld funding and investment in public healthcare.