Creeping privatisation of healthcare is damaging the NHS, study finds

Creeping privatisation of healthcare is damaging the NHS, study finds The creeping privatisation of healthcare under the guise of "patient choice" could be damaging a central concept of the NHS, leading to worse treatment for the old, the poor and the sick, a new study suggests.

Researchers warned that the Government’s sudden shift to the widespread use of private healthcare firms in England was a “radical” experiment that could go “catastrophically wrong”. The Independent

See also:

• Patient choice and private provision decreased public provision and increased inequalities in Scotland: a case study of elective hip arthroplasty (abstract) Journal of Public Health
• Study finds private hip operation policy failed to boost rates BBC News
• The impact of private sector contracts on NHS provision and treatment inequalities EurekAlert!