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🚨 NEW: Study from Dr Ben Goodair and Professor Aaron Reeves links hospital privatisation to worse patient care.   Published today in The Lancet, some of the key findings show that:   🏥 Increases in privatisation generally corresponded with worse quality of #care. 💵 Hospitals converting from public to private ownership status tended to make higher profits. 📈 In some studies, higher levels of hospital #privatisation corresponded with higher rates of avoidable deaths.   Find out more: https://lnkd.in/ezXYcrF6 #Healthcare #HealthPolicy #NHS #PrivateHealthcare #PatientCare

An interesting read from Bob Andrews regarding the current market trends and what the private sector can offer especially at a time when our NHS needs supportive structures to alleviate pressures in primary care and diagnostics. With almost 86% of people that took part in the survey concerned about NHS waiting times. https://lnkd.in/e9wT652G #healthcare #privatehealthcare #NHS

”Over the past 40 years, many health-care systems that were once publicly owned or financed have moved towards privatising their services, primarily through outsourcing to the private sector. But what has the impact been of privatisation on the quality of care? A key aim of this transition is to improve quality of care through increased market competition along with the benefits of a more flexible and patient-centred private sector. However, concerns have been raised that these reforms could result in worse care, in part because it is easier to reduce costs than increase quality of #health care. ” ”We found that hospitals converting from public to private ownership status tended to make higher profits than public #hospitals that do not convert, primarily through the selective intake of patients and reductions to staff numbers. We also found that aggregate increases in privatisation frequently corresponded with worse health outcomes for patients. Very few studies evaluated this important reform and there are gaps in the literature. However, based on the evidence available, we provide evidence that challenges the justifications for health-care privatisation and concludes that the scientific support for further privatisation of health-care services is weak.” #lifestylemedicine

The government is reviewing the "duty of candour" - the rule requiring healthcare providers to be open and honest with patients, especially when there are issues. The call for evidence is open for 6 weeks - learn more and contribute here: https://bit.ly/4cW2klr. #dutyofcandour #patientsafety #healthcare

Is Trust In Healthcare A Task Too Big To Fail Or Too Big To Fix? Forbes 🇺🇸🏥🇺🇸🏥🇺🇸🏥🇺🇸🏥 #Healthcare #HealthcareCost #PrimaryCare #Covid #Covid19 #MonkeyPox #CostofHealthcare #Election2024 #UShealthcare #VBC #Feeforservice #ACOs #NIH #WHO #Medicare

https://ow.ly/mOhm50QP8pl Our report on implementing high-quality primary care, mentioned in this MedPage Today article, offers recommendations to reform payment policies, ensure access, train primary care teams, and more. Read the full report: https://ow.ly/owJe50QP8pm #PrimaryCare #HealthPolicy #ICYMI

Understanding the little moments to enhance staff and patient experience We’re proud to be one of the largest long-term strategic partners of the NHS. We care about the people that embody the NHS, its patients, their loved ones, and its staff. We don’t just focus on numbers, programmes or systems. With a commitment to sustainability and achieving better outcomes, we’re focused on improving performance: https://lnkd.in/e4k8bqpF #NHS #Betteroutcomes #Health #Creatingbetter

Thanks to Capita Public Service for sharing. In #WorkforceDevelopment, we've had the honour of looking after the #NHS in England since 2015 and so far we've: 🥇 supported the creation and growth of the #NHSDigitalAcademy 💙 helped update and combine Clinical & Exec. Leadership in #Safeguarding 🛌 procured best-in-class suppliers to facilitate #PersonalisedCare 🚑 hosted learning for and trained over 550,000 people during the #pandemic There's plenty more innovation available for #NHS and #Care organisations: 🤖 taking some of the effort out of creating digital learning by using #AI ⏳ utilising #Agile to help teams perform better and remove friction 🚨 cascading and embedding #FreedomToSpeakUp and other policies 🏗 adopting role-based learning to improve #StaffMobility and #Retention 👩👧👧 investigating digital skills for #SocialCare We're talking to more NHS organisations than ever before - here's to the next 9yrs!

Great article putting all the key issues around the need for primary care investment in one article - with references to studies to back up the claims. https://lnkd.in/ghYe8qdm