Why are we STILL paying private firms to cock up our healthcare?
After who-knows-how-many-years of botched operations why are we still paying private firms to cock up our healthcare?
One advantage of writing about politics over a very long period of time is that I can remember when I’ve written stories about particular subjects in the past.
So I know that on November 15, 2016 – almost exactly eight years ago – I was telling Vox Political readers that the NHS was spending £600 million a year to fix botched operations by private “healthcare” firms.
Despite the world’s most famous genius, Albert Einstein, telling us that repeatedly doing something that doesn’t work in the hope of getting a better outcome is the very definition of madness, it seems we’re still paying private firms to carry out operations:
A record number of hospital patients were paid compensation last year after they suffered botched care and surgery at the hands of private contractors who won NHS contracts.
Victims suffered needless pain, and additional surgeries, ended up having limbs amputated and even died after their NHS hospital paid for them to be treated by a private healthcare provider.
Compensation paid to NHS patients who have suffered after their care was shifted into the private sector has doubled in the last five years.
In total, over the last five years, the NHS has settled 1,063 cases from NHS patients who said they suffered from negligent care or surgery in the private sector.
These cases landed the NHS with a compensation bill of £83.6million, and when legal fees are added to the total it is closer to £175million.
In the last year, there were a total of 236 successful claims with the damages hitting a record £23.3million. Of these claims, 90 related to people who said that because of the poor private care they ended up having to go through the trauma of another operation. They were paid £7.7million in total, meaning the average paid out was almost £90,000.
The most recent financial year also saw £1.7m paid to 38 patients who suffered damage and unnecessary pain because of botched care, £381,000 to seven people who suffered needless fractures and £281,000 to the families of five patients who sued after their loved one was killed by the botched care. Figures released by the NHS Resolution show the compensation to NHS patients for botched private sector care has risen over the last five years.
During the same time period, the amount of NHS money spent with private contractors has soared to a record high of £11.5billion.
Notice that, in the story quoted above, no mention is made of the amount of money spent internally by the NHS in putting these botched operations right.
The authorities don’t like providing information that can be compared with previously-released statistics because they are nearly always unfavourable.
Source: NHS pays out record £84m in compensation after patients suffer botched care – Mirror Online
come Micheal we know why Thatcher’s government allowed that American failed company over here that’s whispered in every government since turning our system yankytised their goal insurance we all have to take out the greed of man has brought us to this corruption most high has bought our so called government