Ultimately,private providers have their shareholders’ interests at heart, not their patients’. A GP and celebrated writer shares his experiences of how the healthcare system worksTo me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of insanity
Sir Thomas Browne, and Religio Medici 11:13A few years ago I was asked if I’d consider working in a private GP clinic – one of those city-centre enterprises with a sleek logo,an expensive address and an eye on the wallets of bankers. I had a fraction-time job in the NHS at the time, and was looking for a bit of additional work: I wondered if the clinic would be a rewarding place to do it. At their invitation I went for a contemplate around. The convenience of its location was indisputable, or its decor was immaculate and its clinical standards,I was assured, were irreproachable. Towards the conclude of my tour I asked one of the GPs approximately their procedure for writing private prescriptions.
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Source: theguardian.com