Private hospitals did well out of covid

[bear66]

Multi-million pound contract and no delivery. £400m a month to look after 8 patients a day.

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The Treasury agreed in March 2020 to pay for a deal to block-book the entire capacity of all 7,956 beds in England’s 187 private hospitals along with their almost 20,000 staff to help supplement the NHS’s efforts to cope with the unfolding pandemic. It is believed to have cost £400m a month.

However, the Centre for Health and the Public Interest’s report (Pdf) says that on 39% of days between March 2020 and March this year, private hospitals treated no Covid patients at all and on 59% of days they cared for only one person. Overall, they provided only 3,000 of the 3.6m Covid bed days in those 13 months – just 0.08% of the total.

 

[Laughing]

Thats staggering Bear.

 

[Linthorpe_Exile]

Just another scandal - there be a few more rolling along soon.

 

[BoroFur]

Yes just the time when we're told not to bother the state anymore, put our hands in our pockets and sort ourselves out.

 

[PhillySpecial]

It's the same with the whole travel Covid testing arrangements. By many accounts, the Travel Locator Form was not even officially linked to the Covid testing kit reference numbers, and you could pretty much put in any combination of numbers to say you had a negative test when arriving back in Britain and it was approved.

Meanwhile many people forked out a lot of money for those testing kits from the 'Government approved' organization list. A big sham.

 

[Chris_Boro]

That's staggering, even for this Tory shower.

 

[Borotommo]

Sickening

 

[WoodallServices]

I’ll have a sack of rocks and two bags of gravel please.

 

[Randy]

When council tax goes up next year, predicted by 5% a year for the next three years, there will be some serious civil unrest in this country.

 

[dooderooni]

When council tax goes up next year, predicted by 5% a year for the next three years, there will be some serious civil unrest in this country.

There won't, and that's the really saddening thing about the way we've accepted the horrendously bad governance of successive Tory regimes

 

[Randy]

There won't, and that's the really saddening thing about the way we've accepted the horrendously bad governance of successive Tory regimes

At least I'd hope there would be anyways.

 

[Billy69_uk]

"Private hospitals Enterprises did well out of covid"

meanwhile poverty and child hunger is on the rise.

 

[Kowalski]

This is absolutely shameful. Where is the justification for paying £400m per month to private hospitals? By treating an average of 8 patients a day this works out at 137k per patient day of treatment. The government should never have awarded such a contract, however it appears they did. As such they shouid have utilised this obscence contract to reduce the amount of patients in the NHS to reduce the burden and allow the NHS to perform other duties such as operations.

 

[NYboro]

This is absolutely shameful. Where is the justification for paying £400m per month to private hospitals? By treating an average of 8 patients a day this works out at 137k per patient day of treatment. The government should never have awarded such a contract, however it appears they did. As such they shouid have utilised this obscence contract to reduce the amount of patients in the NHS to reduce the burden and allow the NHS to perform other duties such as operations.

Private hospitals use the exact same doctors as the NHS. They can't be in two places at the same time. The contracts should never have been awarded - a complete lack of due diligence.