Review of NHS service charities’ VAT rebates

The Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt, is to review the case for extending VAT rebates to external charity providers of NHS services alongside other issues recommended in a report by Monitor, the regulator of NHS foundation trusts, entitled A fair playing field for the benefit of NHS patients.

The report, which can be downloaded at www.monitor-nhsft.gov.uk/fpfr, was requested by former Health Secretary Andrew Lansley MP in May 2012.