why cant health boards claim insurance?
 

Unless I am reading this wrong, it seems that if a person has private health insurance that covers their private health care at home, the NHS health boards are not allowed to claim against this insurance to cover their care expenses? Yet the social services can?

This anomaly seems to mean, the private insurance firms save themselves tens of millions of pounds of unclaimed health insurance across the UK and the health boards are left paying all of these huge bills? They then spend most of their time fighting to pass some of this expensive workload onto the social services, who probably dont want it?

Meanwhile the tax payers loses hundreds of millions , this affects the delivery of patient care and damages budgets, all of this lost revenue, seems to go straight into the pockets of these insurance companies?

This could be bills as much as £40,000 per person per year? the figures are staggering

over 6 years thats £240,000 per person. if you take 10000 people cared for at home by the health boards, that figure is £2.4 billion that goes unclaimed and goes back to the health insurance companies?

Why cant the health boards claim against this private insurance?