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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
You're quite right to highlight the dodgy PFI initiatives of the last decade. These seem to have been entered into by the naive and the private companies have run rings round the civil servants. Shiney new facilities have come on line and made the politicians look good but the bills are still to be picked up by subsequent administrations.
I conden the morons who signed the contracts, not the companies who took advantage of free money, it is what their shareholders expect them to do.
That does not detract from the fact that competition between providers will drive down costs to the NHS. You can argue that it also drives down wages but that is the inevitable result.
You could of course keep everything in the NHS and double the wages but if the budget remains the same, and in these straitened times it has to, then halve the number of medics, porters, nurses, doctors...
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One thing that should go is locking patients to their postcode.
eg. all the GPs in my inner city area are of low standard but in areas outside of the city council they are of much higher quality but because of where I live I cant use them. If patients were given freedom to go where they like for healthcare then there is competition within the nhs but still kept as a public provided service.
Is this what you mean?