That’s terrible, but it’s not like similar mistakes don’t happen in publicly run hospitals. There doesn’t appear to be clear and compelling evidence that private hospitals are any worse than public hospitals in the U.K. Studies repeatedly find mixed results at best [see citations below]. I am generally opposed to public services being privatised, but if the level of care is better for the same cost, I support it. The issue, as outlined by Kruse et al. (2018), is the incentive structure. With private hospitals responding more efficiently to financial incentives, it becomes critical that policy carefully align public health outcomes with financial incentives.
That’s terrible, but it’s not like similar mistakes don’t happen in publicly run hospitals. There doesn’t appear to be clear and compelling evidence that private hospitals are any worse than public hospitals in the U.K. Studies repeatedly find mixed results at best [see citations below]. I am generally opposed to public services being privatised, but if the level of care is better for the same cost, I support it. The issue, as outlined by Kruse et al. (2018), is the incentive structure. With private hospitals responding more efficiently to financial incentives, it becomes critical that policy carefully align public health outcomes with financial incentives.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3378609/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6033142/
https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12913-018-2953-9