At least one in six people have turned to private health care as patients have had trouble accessing the NHS since 2020, poll results suggest.
The most common reason people turned private was to avoid the NHS waiting list, according to the think tank Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR), which commissioned the YouGov poll.
Among those who needed health care services since 2020, almost half (34 percent of all respondents) had trouble accessing them while 40 percent didn’t, results show. A quarter of the respondents either didn’t need health care services or didn’t remember whether they had trouble with access.
For those who live with a health condition that impacts day-to-day life, 51 percent had trouble accessing NHS care while 40 percent didn’t….