Number crunching

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10 billion contracts to be awarded to private hospitals to ease hospital. Waiting lists owing to lack of NHS capacity

8 billion is what it would take to build NHS hospitals with as many beds as private hospitals can offer

 

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Nov 2018 first group launches an investigation after a double decker bus hit a bridge injuring 6 people

Dec 2019 first group launches a full investigation after a double decker hit a railway bridge fatally injuring a student

June 2020 first group double decker hits a railway bridge

July 2020 first group launches internal investigation after double decker hits railway bridge

August 2020
First group launches immediate investigation to avoid a repeat of this tyoe of incident after double decker hits a railway bridge in Lanarkshire

Blimey best not get on a first group double decker or if u do sit down stairs

 

[SirGalahad]

https://www.ft.com/content/3aab4ef6-6f2b-4726-87aa-40071ad80544

If the Government didn't bail out these private hospitals some of them would close - in the US with the fall in elective surgeries- many private hospitals are feeling the pinch.

They can dress it up as capacity issues but the bare fact is that it will be the same consultants doing the operations but just on private premises.

There is a role for private hospitals but not at the expense of capacity issues within the NHS caused by silly market based reforms. The US is a prime example how dysfuncional a privatised healthcare system can be.

 

[motorbiking]

The problem governments have (not just this one), is option A is on the books. CapEx and debt. Option B is off the books OpEx annualised spend.

Its why previous governments created Public Private Partnerships, who also emptied their wallets.