|
With the Scandi nations, it looks from that thread that there was a serious mismanagement of resources for ideological reasons - tying their health services into ultimately catastrophic public-private financing agreements
We did the same here with public private hospital newbuilds as a quick fire solution to the problem of very old hospitals becoming unusable at an alarming rate (mainly due to chronic underfunding meaning necessary repairs and maintenance slipped in favour of front line service).
As yet, we haven't reached the bribery and corruption stage of things in terms of accessing healthcare - but I suspect (and there have been murmurings about this for some time) a degree of corruption in how contracts are awarded to private providers when the NHS farms out some element of care/support
What concerns me about that is that some of the people developing policy around NHS services and the relationship between public and private hehalthcare are themselves connectd in various ways to the private healthcare sector
|