Comment on NHS waiting lists: estimated 340,000 died awaiting treatment in 2022

AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Flyberius@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Bearing in mind it’s all private firms wearing an NHS hat, I would argue corporate murder

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  • zoe@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    thats messed up. our condolences

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  • JasSmith@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That's terrible, but it's not like similar mistakes don't happen in publicly run hospitals. There doesn't appear to be clear and compelling evidence that private hospitals are any worse than public hospitals in the U.K. Studies repeatedly find mixed results at best [see citations below]. I am generally opposed to public services being privatised, but if the level of care is better for the same cost, I support it. The issue, as outlined by Kruse et al. (2018), is the incentive structure. With private hospitals responding more efficiently to financial incentives, it becomes critical that policy carefully align public health outcomes with financial incentives.

    • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3378609/

    • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6033142/

    • https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12913-018-2953-9

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