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Wednesday, October 12, 2005The PCTs, which are in charge of commissioning local services from hospitals to GPs, have proposed having just 1,500 patients referred to local hospitals each week, the BBC's Today programme reported. At the moment 2,000 patients are treated by hospital consultants. The thing about medicine is, you can't predict how many people are going to need hospitalization or referral to specialists in any given time period. And, as the baby boomers age, we can expect the number of people needing hospitalization and specialist care to increase, not decrease. Lest you think this is a problem solely unto nationalized systems, the same thing happens here with HMO's and multi-specialty group practices. There is pressure to keep the patients away from hospitals and referrals outside the group. They just use things like incentive bonuses and administrator disapproval to get the job done rather than out and out caps. posted by Sydney on 10/12/2005 08:10:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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