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<p>National Health Service patients are benefitting from an unprecedented partnership
with private hospitals as we battle the COVID-19 outbreak. The Department and NHS
England and NHS Improvement have worked with the independent sector to secure all
appropriate inpatient capacity and other resource across England.</p><p>It is currently
not possible to estimate the cost to the public purse on how much has been paid to
private hospitals to be on standby for use by the NHS for patients with COVID-19 since
March 2020.</p>
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