…faced severe challenges. The basic NHS principles (universal, comprehensive, free at point of need and tax funded) were strongly supported and the NHS did well on international comparisons, but the…
…30p) and NHS dental fees (up 8.5 per cent). In the same week as the JRF report was published, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) thinktank’s Commission on Health…
…organised and paid for by the NHS. For example, consultants are employed by private hospitals on a self-employed basis and the companies contribute nothing to their training. Of course the…
…make regular payments to a health insurance company and in the USA – the only example in the developed world around 9% of the population are uninsured. Although the private…
…plans are constrained by the discipline that nothing can be promised without identifying where the money comes from. But there were lots of positives, not least an unequivocal commitment to…
…better outcomes. Nigel Edwards of the Nuffield Trust pointed out that if we look at countries that have health systems funded largely out of tax, that are mostly free, comprehensive…
…the deliberative research there was a ‘broad consensus’ for moving funding towards primary care services. Although participants in the research did not want a decline in access to hospital care…
…to end what is very clearly a failed experiment by ending compulsory competitive tendering for services.” (p52) The report also criticised the excess costs of the Private Finance Initiative (PFI):…
Doctaly, the start-up company pairing NHS GP practices with private fee-paying patients, has signed deals with 36 UK GP practices. This includes 35 practices in England, as well as latest…