Recently I stated:
Why are privateers buying into GP practices. The answer may lie with the way the NHS internal market is going: all for the benefit of privateers. Like supermarkets, the only way to make money is through: OWN BRAND. So channelling patients to profit making part of OWN BRAND hospital services will be the only way.
NHS & Hospitals: Dr Grumble & Frosty View!
Thank goodness, we may begin to see some fruits from our blogs:
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2012 Am Ang Zhang
The Guardian: GPs
end Virgin partnership over conflict of interest
More than 300 GPs on Wednesday ended their
partnership with Richard Branson's Virgin Care to provide healthcare services
after criticism that the arrangements might see doctors personally profit from sending
patients to clinics they part-own under the coalition's health reforms.
Virgin, under its former name Assura, had set up two dozen local
"provider companies" – known as GPCos – which sought to make money by
being paid by the NHS to offer community services such
as dermatology, physiotherapy and rheumatology to patients. All were run as
partnerships with local GPs.
But the government's decision to force GPs to commission health
services had put family doctors in a "position of possible conflict of
interest", the company admitted.
Lets hope
this is genuine and not just a technical exercise. It will not be too difficult
to check where the referrals ended up: only time will tell.
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