Manipulating waiting lists
Bernie Creaven, executive director of BMI Meriden Hospital, Coventry ordered an immediate four-week postponement of operations on NHS patients referred to the hospital, which will be extended to a...
View ArticleDr Paul Charlson’s ‘sunny uplands’ merit further scrutiny
Private Practice or General Practice? Dr Paul Charlson recently has done an excellent article in Pulse on setting up non-NHS services. In this article, Dr Charlson presents ‘private practice’ as...
View ArticlePrivate Medical Treatment – numbers
Almost one in five NHS patients seen in secondary care now treated by private firms, after Labour’s ‘patient choice’ reforms led to an expansion in the independent healthcare market, a report by the...
View ArticleCare UK’s self-pay charges
Care UK sees an opportunity to make money out of NHS rationing decisions Charges advertised to doctors for people not eligible for NHS treatment: Richard Blogger’s articles about NHS hospitals doing...
View ArticleIs the battle of the “Private patient income cap” for non-NHS work actually a...
One of the first rules in life is that you should be prepared to fight your battles to the hilt, but you should pick the right battles first. The cardinal assumption of Labour’s policy is that it...
View ArticlePrivate treatment and the NHS
This discussion paper was presented to the the Socialist Health Association Central Council November 2013 but not considered. It is not agreed policy. This is a revised version. This set of...
View ArticlePatient safety in private hospitals
So much has been written and broadcast about terrible standards of care in some NHS hospitals in recent years, most notably but by no means only at Mid Staffordshire, that it would be easy to gain the...
View ArticlePrivate patient admissions on the NHS on the rise
The introduction of a controversial healthcare act in England is encouraging hospitals to treat more private patients to raise funds – allegedly increasing waiting times for those being seen on the...
View ArticlePrivate or Public Healthcare; What’s the Difference?
With the national health services rolls expanding, patients all across the UK are experiencing longer than anticipated wait times for visits with their general practitioners (GPs). Patients are also...
View ArticleAn Introduction to Chin Augmentation
In the last two decades, many different types of cosmetic surgery have become quite popular among different categories of people. Even though there is nothing wrong with accepting your natural look, it...
View ArticleRedefining severity: how to reduce NHS costs in the 21st century
If something can’t go on for ever then eventually it will stop – so says Stein’s Law – attributed to the eponymous American economist. Senior Health service managers are now openly admitting that the...
View ArticleManipulating waiting lists
Bernie Creaven, executive director of BMI Meriden Hospital, Coventry ordered an immediate four-week postponement of operations on NHS patients referred to the hospital, which will be extended to a...
View ArticlePrivate Medical Treatment – numbers
Almost one in five NHS patients seen in secondary care now treated by private firms, after Labour’s ‘patient choice’ reforms led to an expansion in the independent healthcare market, a report by the...
View ArticleCare UK’s self-pay charges
Care UK sees an opportunity to make money out of NHS rationing decisions Charges advertised to doctors for people not eligible for NHS treatment: Richard Blogger’s articles about NHS hospitals doing...
View ArticlePrivate treatment and the NHS
This discussion paper was presented to the the Socialist Health Association Central Council November 2013 but not considered. It is not agreed policy. This is a revised version. This set of...
View ArticlePatient safety in private hospitals
So much has been written and broadcast about terrible standards of care in some NHS hospitals in recent years, most notably but by no means only at Mid Staffordshire, that it would be easy to gain the...
View ArticlePrivate patient admissions on the NHS on the rise
The introduction of a controversial healthcare act in England is encouraging hospitals to treat more private patients to raise funds – allegedly increasing waiting times for those being seen on the...
View ArticlePrivate or Public Healthcare; What’s the Difference?
With the national health services rolls expanding, patients all across the UK are experiencing longer than anticipated wait times for visits with their general practitioners (GPs). Patients are also...
View ArticleAn Introduction to Chin Augmentation
In the last two decades, many different types of cosmetic surgery have become quite popular among different categories of people. Even though there is nothing wrong with accepting your natural look, it...
View ArticleRedefining severity: how to reduce NHS costs in the 21st century
If something can’t go on for ever then eventually it will stop – so says Stein’s Law – attributed to the eponymous American economist. Senior Health service managers are now openly admitting that the...
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