Discuss.

[ferg]

I'm not suggesting The NHS should be run as a business but if you ran a business in the same way the NHS is run it would collapse catastrophically.

Civil servants are absolutely notorious for wasting money on an unimaginable scale.

I have no objection to private companies being contracted to run parts of the NHS.

IF they increase standards AND reduce operating costs.

The profits they then make are a percentage of the overall savings.

The NHS itself should be able to do this but for some reason they don't, nothing changes and they take the easy option of cutting services.

 

[telectrix]

agreed. some years ago, the MD of the company i worked for had a brother who was a hospital porter. one day he was asked to take 6 huge bags of clinical waste to the incinerator. being a nosy sod, he opened a bag to find it full of brand new dressings, bandages etc. all the bags contained the same. on asking a senior nurse why they were going to the incinerator, he was told " we've got no room to store them". unbelievable.