Claim: The NHS internal market, created in the 1990s, costs around £10 billion a year.
Fact-check: No-one knows the exact cost or benefit of the NHS internal market in England - Full Fact
Verdict: there's no evidence to prove this. research that arrives at this figure just estimates increases in admin costs over time, rather than trying to single out what impact the internal market has had.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Joseph O'Leary
Date published: 2018-02-27T00:00:00