Annex A > Chapter 6 - Funding and Resources > The allocation of resources to the Regional Health Authority > Private funding
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Private funding
31 Mr Nix was asked by Counsel to the Inquiry about a letter to Mr John Watson [47] dated 2 December 1987, in which Mr Keen [48] protested about the fact that the income received from private patients undergoing cardiac surgery (who paid £330 per day for accommodation) was not credited to the cardiac surgery budget. [49] Mr Nix explained that this was because:
`... the unit itself had funding to provide this level of service, and it was financed in part overall for the Trust from private patient income. So, if you like, they have a spending budget and we also had an income budget. The income budget for the Health Authority came ... from the Regional Health Authority plus the money coming on the private patient route. I should say, we did not do an awful lot of private patient work, so this is not part of any private major funding stream.' [50]
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Footnotes
[47] Unit General Manager, BRI
[48] Consultant cardiac surgeon, BRI
[49] UBHT 0295 0063; letter from Mr Keen to Mr Watson dated 2 December 1987