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Andrew Lansley, according to this morning's Guardian, is removing the cap on NHS hospitals making money from private health provision.
Concerns have been raised as to whether this will create a two-tier system of health provision and reversion to longer waiting times for NHS patients with private patients jumping the queue.
If those concerns could be addressed - would it be a good thing to reap the profit for the NHS given that it is NHS training that our doctors and consultants get? If private money could be poured into the NHS rather than watch those profits go to private providers would that be a good way to address the looming funding gap (with the caveats as above) or not?
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londoner
Commented 79 weeks ago
Even if a two-tier system could be avoided, how much of the income from private NHS healthcare would go into supporting free NHS healthcare?