Yea, my wife's experienced that a few times; when relatively easy, profit making, procedures go wrong in a private hospital the patient is offloaded to the NHS for emergency and/or long term treatment. It's a bit of a bug bear amongst NHS doctors.
But very easily remedied, there should be a process where the NHS can claim the cost from the hospital that caused the issue in the first place and an automatic system of compensation for the patient. This will make the private hospitals realise that they cannot take a gamble with people and any issues will cost them.
A good idea; though I assume the costs would simply be front loaded (onto the private medical insurance bills).
but as long as it is someone else paying more tax and not them.......
ats not true plenty of private hospitals but they are really travel lodges with theatres bolted on.
Just a turn of phrase, no religion involved! Lesser of two fruitcakes you still get a fruitcake etc
Often it is not. Many innovators at many levels, past and present, were not the ones to make the mega bucks. That came later with the "entrepreneurs" and others. It's an interesting area of study in itself.
"If", then yes.
Not true. Many people are not that stupid and can see that taxation is the price of civilisation and are happy to cough up.
........and of course the two most conspicuous effects of the "profit motive" through history, up to the present, have been;
Ìf you go back and read my post (#1295) you'll see that I said the opposite. I'm prepared to pay more tax, my three kids are, my neighbours are, most sensible people (the ones I know anyway) are.
Do you have statistics to support the efficacy of those measures? If not it just reads like a series of assertions gleaned from the Daily Mail rather than a reasonable plan to help the NHS.
The BMA carried out a survey last year which showed one third of ethnic minority doctors were considering leaving the NHS due to racism.
I don’t see how anyone with any shred of decency can think this way. The only doubt they can claim benefit of is ignorance. But clearly they do. We should ensure that their mouthpiece Farage and his pack of bigots, creeps and saddos get nowhere near parliament.
The NHS has less managers per staff member than most commercial organisations, so it could possibly benefit from more managerial effort to keep costs down.. Don't let the right wing press make you think a few specialists cost anything significant.
Do you rely on private health care then? If not why not?
Who wouldn't?
This is all nonsense.
