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Undercover: Inside the Priory

Dispatches · Season 2018 · Episode 4
In the grip of a funding crisis and with the number of mental health beds plummeting, the NHS is placing thousands of patients in private hospitals. The American-owned Priory Group is the biggest beneficiary receiving hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers' money over the last year. Dispatches goes undercover in one of the group's hospitals to investigate the care these patients are receiving and discovers a worrying picture.

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Season
2018
Episode
4
Air Date
19/Feb/2018
Air Time
20:00
Runtime
30 min

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In the grip of a funding crisis and with the number of mental health beds plummeting, the NHS is placing thousands of patients in private hospitals. The American-owned Priory Group is the biggest beneficiary receiving hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers' money over the last year. Dispatches goes undercover in one of the group's hospitals to investigate the care these patients are receiving and discovers a worrying picture.

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