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Monday, April 22, 2002"America's largest healthcare provider is planning to take over a large slice of National Health Service work by supplying cancer treatment worth 50 million pounds to 10,000 patients a year. Instead of patients having to wait up to six months for operations, radiotherapy and chemotherapy at NHS hospitals, GPs will be able to refer them directly to the American firm's private clinics in Britain. The scheme will be launched this summer by HCA International , which runs more than 200 hospitals in America." HCA thinks it can do this more cheaply than the NHS, and more efficiently. It will certainly do it with less paperwork. Let's see, first they announce they're giving their physicians more autonomy, then they hand over a portion of their business to a capitalist health system. I guess the British are serious about revamping their National Health Service. posted by Sydney on 4/22/2002 07:55:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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