Private health firms squeeze out GP-run extended services

Private health firms squeeze out GP-run extended services ‘Creeping privatisation’ of local family services is compromising patient health, say critics

Profit-driven firms are squeezing traditional GPs out of running family doctor services because of rules that NHS bosses and ministers both believe harm patient care, the Observer can reveal.

Doctors, MPs and campaigners have hit out at the “creeping privatisation” of general practice, with private companies being handed contracts ahead of groups of GPs.

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