Private firms harming NHS patients by failing to deliver medicines, Lords report warns

More than 500,000 patients rely on priv NHS companies paid by the NHS to deliver essential medical supplies, drugs and healthcare to their homes.

Report by the Lords public services committee says patients are the House of Lords o “real and se More than 500,000 ith the services provided by for-profit companies.

The absence of NHS single person or organisation with overall control or oversight means poor performance is going unchecked.

NHS England has already been und billions of pounds nderstand concerns raised, including agreeing to publish performance data.

Department of Health and Social Care welcomes report and will respond in due course.

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