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Patients left waiting by NHS win right to private care - The Guardian 31st October 2009
"Cabinet agrees to enforce maximum waiting time of 18 weeks"
Elderly pay higher care home bills so others can go free - The Sunday Telegraph 31st October 2009
"Elderly people are being charged thousands of pounds extra for their residential care in order to subsidise others getting free places, care home owners have admitted. "
Andy Burnham makes NHS private care pledge 'key election battleground' - Telegraph
"A war of words has broken out over the future of the National Health Service after ministers launched the right to free private treatment for patients on waiting lists. "
I'm not gullible, but I was seduced into my breast op by a Harley Street address. After £17,000 of surgery, I feel deformed - Daily Mail 31st October 2009
"Harley Street is, to many, synonymous with the cream of private doctors - and, in particular, plastic surgeons. So when Sarah Cound booked a breast reduction operation with the Harley Medical Group, the UK's largest cosmetic surgery group, she believed she would receive the best care money could buy. "
Private healthcare shrank by 4% under Labour - The Guardian 29th October 2009
"Health analysts believe that improvements to NHS coupled with the recent recession have drawn patients away from private sector"
Boost for Blackburn medical park - Lancashire Telegraph 26th October 2009
"A NEW ‘health hub’ could turn East Lancashire into a regional leader in the bio-medical sector, it is hoped.
Regeneration leaders have teamed up with the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) to move the development from Preston to the Medi Knowledge Park, in Shadsworth, Blackburn. "
Thousands of NHS patients opt for private care through 'choice' agenda - Daily Telegraph 26th October 2009
"Thousands of NHS patients have opted to go to private hospitals for treatment since the Government launched its "choice" agenda, it has been reported."
Mystery of NHS's for-profit treatment - The Guardian 21st October 2009
"Scotland has boldly challenged the value of private treatment centres. Will England lift the lid on this 'evidence-free zone'?"
Beware the zealots selling miracle cures of privatisation - The Guardian 19th October 2009
"The latest CBI salvo against the public sector is blinkered. Those who dash for dazzling quick fixes will come a cropper"
NHS sends thousands of its own staff private - The Observer 18th October 2009
"Liberal Democrats say £1.5m bill "raises serious issues" about health service provision"
3,000 NHS staff get private care - The Sunday Times 18th October 2009
"THE National Health Service has spent £1.5m paying for hundreds of its staff to have private health treatment so they can leapfrog their own waiting lists.
More than 3,000 staff, including doctors and nurses, have gone private at the taxpayers’ expense in the past three years because the queues at the clinics and hospitals where they work are too long."
Private medical records for sale: Harley Street clinic patients' files outsourced for computer input - and end up on black market - Daily Mail 18th October 2009
"The confidential medical records of patients treated at one of Britain’s top private hospitals have been illegally sold to undercover investigators.
Hundreds of files containing intimate details of patients’ conditions, home addresses and dates of birth are being offered for as little as £4 each."
The private drain on the NHS - The Guardian 15th October 2009
"Services are being shunted off to the independent sector, robbing us of a true picture of healthcare in Britain"
Surgeons offer eyesight tailored to an individual’s life and career - The Times 3rd October 2009
"There are sportswear firms offering bespoke trainers and funeral companies that sell personalised coffins, but this latest extension of Savile Row principles may shock even the staunchest devotees of mass customisation.
Laser eye surgeons are now offering tailor-made corneas. Two decades after the first laser eye treatment in Britain, in November 1989, the quest for perfect vision has been replaced, in many cases, by eyesight tailored to an individual’s life and career."
Cuts to public services will result in risk-taking and rebellion - The Guardian 29th September 2009
"People will turn to private services or local alternatives as they feel the crunch of public cutbacks"
Trust suspends private referrals - BBC Health News 24th September 2009
Patients being treated in the Belfast Health Trust will no longer be referred to the private sector for operations because the Trust cannot afford them.
Patients throughout NI are often referred to private clinics for knee, hip, heart and cataract operations, helping to reduce waiting lists.
Outsourced hip operations 'make more work for NHS' - The Guardian 22nd September 2009
NHS forced to do remedial work because of high error rates at contract centre, study says
Specialist NHS clinics are 20 times more likely to botch hip operations - Daily Mail 22nd September 2009
Patients who have hip replacement operations at specialist NHS clinics are 20 times more likely to need painful and expensive repair work.
Operations on two-thirds of patients in one treatment centre showed clear evidence of below standard surgical procedure, a study revealed.
Bowl maker invests £1.5m in factory - The Bolton News 21st September 2009
BOLTON medical products manufacturer Vernacare has doubled production of biodegradable washing bowls to meet worldwide demand to combat hospital superbugs.
The company developed the world’s first pulp bowl two years ago to overcome the risk of plastic bowls.
NHS paying high price for bungled hip replacements at private centres - The Times 22nd September 2009
People having hip replacements at private treatment centres brought in to cut waiting times are up to 20 times more likely to need painful and expensive repair work. Many operations are having to be redone in NHS hospitals, at great cost and with serious staffing implications for the health service.
A study by orthopaedic surgeons in Cardiff found that of 113 hip operations on patients sent from their NHS trust to Weston-super-Mare NHS Treatment Centre between 2004 and 2006, two thirds showed clear evidence of poor surgical technique, such as poor cementing of the hip.
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