Professor Alan Irvine:

To give a brief description, the deal we did here was to take over the complete command and control of all of the running costs of the Private Hospitals Association, PHA, hospitals, whereas the British deal was more titrated towards activity delivered and it did not take over the entire operation of the hospitals. That is going to account for quite a big discrepancy in the per-bed costs when one reduces it down to that. Obviously if one buys 100% capacity but use 20%, 30% or 50% yet still pay for 100% then that will skew the costs per unit item.