BMA Chairman comments on choice and hospital closures, UK
If this forces some hospitals to close, NHS capacity will decrease. Patients will lose more than surgical beds: where will they get the A&E departments, the round the clock care, the Intensive Care beds, and where will new doctors and nurses be trained? There is much more at stake here than the Secretary of State seems to acknowledge."
On the news that the next wave of Independent Sector Treatment Centres may (like the first wave) be guaranteed a volume of work and may be paid more for operations than the national tariff set for NHS Hospitals, James Johnson said: "The Government intends to finance hospitals through Payment by Results. This can only work equitably on a level playing field and not one skewed in favour of private sector providers. Even then it does not cover the additional services provided by an NHS hospital."
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