If you have 20 Dr's, and each week they do 50% private and 50% NHS then Streeting buys extra private, so now some of the Dr's 50% private is used on NHS.
And anyone who objects is very privileged to not be in need of desperate care.
It is a slippery slope, no doubt. Preventative care and community care. Accessibility to health care with travel costs, child care, elderly and disabled has become a bigger issue since the decimation of community care. Preventing problems before they escalate would keep A&E numbers down.
As long as we only utilise current free capacity in the private sector and don't shift ccg models to rely on the service of the Private Sector, i dont have an issue. Too many times a private service is relied on and they capitalise on that. We must be able to stop using them tomorrow if needed.
100% agree. Currently in a downward spiral of now only emergency/urgent/2ww getting seen within time so long waits become emergency and we go around again. Step 1, break the cycle and send easy fixes to private so it doesnt clog up in the future. Step 2: invest in training/buildings and tech. Min 3y
And social care. Wards are just blocked because there is nowhere to send them. Which then blocks up emergency depts. (Then we can worry about preventitive education later. )
Except private sector capacity is at least partially dependent on NHS medical staff (especially consultants), so it’s more that the private sector offers additional physical capacity.
I think the government should buy that capacity outright, rather than piecemeal as services.
The problem many of us 'middle-class lefties' have, @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social, is squaring the fact around 60% of your political donations have come from the private healthcare sector. Do you not understand how that compromises your stance as NHS defender? And raises worries about your intent?
Sure fire way to dismantle a public service. Ask us Americans how we’re doing with private sector actors in healthcare. Better yet, look up United Healthcare and Luigi.
he is naive about the private sector - they are always about skimming the cream of profit off any health care procedure and leaving the complicated stuff for the public sector to pick up the pieces
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And anyone who objects is very privileged to not be in need of desperate care.
This is not new 🤦🏽♀️
I think the government should buy that capacity outright, rather than piecemeal as services.
“Before the pandemic, ISPs delivered around 12% of total NHS-funded planned treatments requiring hospital admission and 7% of outpatient treatments.”
https://www.health.org.uk/reports-and-analysis/analysis/waiting-for-nhs-hospital-care-the-role-of-the-independent-sector
This is a warning from America. We die for shareholder profit.