Posted on 07/03/2009 8:56:11 PM PDT by george76
Cancer patients who face long waits in the NHS will be given cash to go private, in a radical shift of Government policy.
Gordon Brown will unveil a significant expansion of private sector involvement in health provision as part of his much-hyped relaunch next week.
For the first time, if a primary care trust (PCT) cannot give cancer patients a specialist appointment within two weeks of referral from a GP, it will have to provide equivalent funding for a private consultation.
However, the principle of involving the private sector in acute treatment is regarded as a major change of approach. Currently only elective surgery such as hip replacements and cataract surgery is provided through private treatment.
The move is likely to be portrayed as a climbdown
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Cancer care in the UK is horrific, almost third world. Your best survival strategy is to immigrate to the United States. I mean that literally.
Notice that the UK is moving out of its medical Stone Age in PRECISELY THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION OF OBAMA AND THE DEMOCRATS.
(Not that Teddy Kennedy and the democrats ever intend for one millisecond to subject themselves of their families to the cr*p medical care they plan to mandate on the sheeple)
This will make the PCT do what ever it takes to meet the two weeks so they do not have to pay. Bad quality medicine is going to get a whole lot worse in the UK. Coming soon to America.
I see. So being blind, or a gimp is the prefered way of life in the UK.
only for non-muslims or natural born english.
Kinda sucks when you run out of specialists.
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