Hsotcmings of the UK Private Health sector

I found this to be revealing the private health sector in the UK has shortcomings too but not splashed all over the papers



http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...hospitals-fail

Quote:

After a long summer of stories about Mid Staffordshire it occurred to me to wonder why we have heard so little about another hospital which had also been putting patients' lives at risk. The failings at the Stafford hospital led to two major inquiries by Robert Francis and a review of 14 NHS hospitals by Sir Bruce Keogh. But the failings at the private BMI Mount Alvernia hospital in Guildford have led to no inquiry, even though BMI is the largest private hospital group in the UK, and a significant share of its revenues comes from treating NHS patients. Unlike Mid Staffs, Mount Alvernia has not become an emblem of the failings of private hospitals. Yet when the Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspected the hospital in January this year it found that "medical, surgical and some nursing practices were so poor that people were put at significant risk. This risk was, on some occasions, life-threatening".

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