The beginning of the end of the NHS ?

Private companies should be allowed to bid to run up to 30 NHS hospitals, 21 of which of the Department of Health has already classified as 'clinically and financially unsustainable', according to an influential health policy think tank.

The report, authored by Professor Paul Corrigan, former health adviser to Tony Blair, calls for private companies and the best NHS hospitals to take over troubled hospitals because he says that is the surest way to turn them around.

‘Supporting mergers between unsuccessful NHS hospitals because you cannot find anything else to do with them is not going to suddenly make mergers a successful method of improving failing hospitals,' said Professor Corrigan.

A comment from a Doctor.

"Please can you stop describing Reform as "an influential health policy think tank"? It is a pro-market lobbying organization for the corporate sector, through which corporations buy influence on government policy. It's time Reform was "outed" for what it really is. Someone should report it to the Charity Commission as its purpose is not charitable, unless you think helping line the pockets of the already filthy rich is charitable. If you want to know more read http://socialinvestigations.blogspot.co.uk/"

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/newsarticle-content/-/article_display_list/14696621/think-tank-calls-for-private-sector-to-run-up-to-30-nhs-hospitals

Eddie