{"id":10319,"date":"2011-06-06T10:48:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T09:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=10319"},"modified":"2011-06-06T10:48:14","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T09:48:14","slug":"private-firms-won%e2%80%99t-offer-the-nhs-value-for-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/06\/06\/private-firms-won%e2%80%99t-offer-the-nhs-value-for-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Private firms won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t offer the NHS value for money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article in the Daily Telegraph today by Max Pemberton sheds more light on NHS privatisation (with <a href=\"http:\/\/liberalconspiracy.org\/2011\/06\/06\/new-survey-ranks-nhs-1-for-efficiency-and-effectiveness\/\" target=\"_blank\">hat tip to Sunny Hundal<\/a> for drawing this to my attention).\u00a0The article says: \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/health\/8554536\/Max-Pemberton-Finger-on-the-Pulse.html\">Private firms won\u2019t offer the NHS value for money<\/a>\u2018:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Strenuous efforts by academics such as Allyson Pollock, professor of public health research and policy at Queen Mary, University of London, to obtain the data relating to private-sector involvement has uncovered some horrendous examples of profligacy and waste.<\/p>\n<p>It also provides the definitive answer that private-sector involvement haemorrhages cash out of the health-care system and does not improve patient care.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of articles in the British Medical Journal, Professor Pollock has shown, for example, that \u00a3500 million of taxpayers\u2019 money has been wasted on a flagship scheme to treat NHS patients in the private sector.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The whole article is an essential read for those advocating privatising the NHS further because what it catalogues is increased waste as a result oif the inflexible nature of contracting.<\/p>\n<p>This really is a\u00a0disaster\u00a0waiting to happen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article in the Daily Telegraph today by Max Pemberton sheds more light on NHS privatisation (with hat tip to Sunny Hundal for drawing this<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/06\/06\/private-firms-won%e2%80%99t-offer-the-nhs-value-for-money\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nhs","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}