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?
Paying them over the odds for the service
@Stephen, Sounds like we need some healthy competition.
Sounds to me like we need to abandon the idea of a centrally run NHS and make patients into customers.
@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”.
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.
“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.