04.10.10
NHS spurns private healthcare providers, according to Civitas report
A number of senior staff in the NHS are potentially denying patients better treatment because they are not taking into account private sector suppliers, according to a new report by think tank Civitas.
The report found that many doctors were ignoring representatives from private sector providers, because of an apparent ‘loyalty to the family of NHS hospital providers’.
The report’s co-author James Gubb said: “The Coalition Government has put a lot of faith in the power of the market to meet the NHS's unnerving productivity challenge.
“The problem is the Coalition isn't addressing the real issues as to why the market currently isn't delivering: the overwhelming power of hospitals and the closed-shop ‘we can do it alone because we're the NHS’ attitude so prevalent across the organisation.”
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