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Originally Posted by Escapee
What they have said about increasing the contracting of NHS patients to private hospitals would have resulted in screams of "Privatisation of the NHS" if the Conservatives had proposed the same.
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That's exactly how Blair reduced waiting lists, and I don't recall there being a huge outcry at the time.
The trust where I live has been using private hospitals ever since then, I had an NHS op in one a couple of years ago, because my wait was about to breach their target time. It frees up NHS capacity to concentrate on the more complex cases that can't be done in the private sector.