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> is to my eyes scandalous. But somehow unremarked There's a lot of remarking going on - Private Eye, for example, have been banging the "NHS privatisation" dr
by zimpenfish 4y ago
> is to my eyes scandalous. But somehow unremarked
There's a lot of remarking going on - Private Eye, for example, have been banging the "NHS privatisation" drum for a couple of decades at least. The Guardian, too, mention it not infrequently.
- azalemeth 4y agoThis is very true. The NHS has become a commissioning organisation -- it puts out a request for a service and providers bid for it. Many of these services are IT related; many of them are things like physiotherapy referral programmes. Patients may or may not know who provides their care. This is not at all how things used to be and I have noticed it get far worse of late.
- tailspin2019 4y agoAs an aside, I’ve had first hand experience in a couple of those outsourced IT services and the amount of wasted money in that area alone is staggering.
- phatfish 4y agoSaid firms are also laughably bad. A number of NHS services were taken down by a crypto-locker style attack just recently. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-62442127 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-62442127 The internal NHS IT services were no worse and far better value as you say.