While details of the government's 10-year plan for the NHS are awaited, the Secretary of State for Health in his speech at the 2024 Labour Party conference gave some insights into his vision, saying that "where there’s capacity in the private sector, patients should be able to choose to go there too, free at the point of use, paid for by the NHS". As NHS healthcare provision comes to involve an increasingly diverse range of providers, a treatment error by one sub-contractor could have significant ramifications not only for the injured patient but also for the various parties involved in their care. Private sector providers will need to ensure their contractual and insurance indemnity provisions are robust and that they have good risk management arrangements in place.