Treatment centres run by the private sector are profiting from NHS funding by taking on less risky patients while being paid the same rate as publicly funded hospitals, a study suggests.
Do the routine, almost industrialised, stuff in one place, put the complicated ones under the care of experts.
The problem with this is?
6 responses so far ↓
1 Stephen // Nov 9, 2009 at 10:08 am
Paying them over the odds for the service
2 The Great Simpleton // Nov 9, 2009 at 11:03 am
@Stephen, Sounds like we need some healthy competition.
3 AntiCitizenOne // Nov 9, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Sounds to me like we need to abandon the idea of a centrally run NHS and make patients into customers.
4 john b // Nov 9, 2009 at 4:47 pm
@3, see also the brain-dead leftie commentators who say to every fecking piece of news “Sounds to me like the state should nationalise XXX and get rid of the fat-cats”.
5 john malpas // Nov 10, 2009 at 2:02 am
Assuming patients are routine will lead sooner or later to death. The vague headache which is a brain tumour in the making etc.
And for anyone over 60 years of age Occam’s razor should be abandoned. But unfortunatly too often you are allowed one illness at a time.
Everyone deserves an expert.
6 lost_nurse // Nov 10, 2009 at 5:04 pm
“The problem with this is?”
Are you joking? Even simple elective procedures can become horribly complicated, from all kinds of angles – even in the fit n’ young. Invasive surgery is NEVER routine, even when it is described as such. Give me ITU down the corridor and a [insert specialist here] opinion if I need one, any day.
ISTCs are pisspoor value for money, and detract from decent continuity of care.
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