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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Am I the only person who is totally P'd off that private hospitals don't seem to be doing much unless they're being paid to?
    Devon.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Hostafan1 said:
    Am I the only person who is totally P'd off that private hospitals don't seem to be doing much unless they're being paid to?

    I thought several thousand bed spaces had already been requisitioned.  There will be a cost, just as there will be for ventilators etc supplied by private companies.  Staff and materials still have to be paid for.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    "requisitioned" at top dollar. 
    Devon.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Hostafan1 said:
    "requisitioned" at top dollar. 

    I have no idea how much private hospitals are being paid, do you have any figures or are you simply guessing?
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    KT53 said:
    Hostafan1 said:
    "requisitioned" at top dollar. 

    I have no idea how much private hospitals are being paid, do you have any figures or are you simply guessing?

    "As part of this agreement, private hospitals will be reimbursed, at cost – meaning no profit will be made for doing so."


    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    edited April 2020
    The biggest problem, is that 80% of the medical staff in the private sector, are actually employed by the NHS, so no real problem will be solved.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited April 2020
    It seems clear to me that all available medical staff need to be deployed and it matters little whence they come.  If they normally work in the private sector it's because pay and/or conditions are better for them there than in the NHS and that is something which needs to be addressed when this crisis is over - how we value essential services no matter how lowly or highly qualified they may be.

    These people deserve and need the best equipment possible for their own protection as well as to treat the sick.  They also need us to observe the social distancing and isolation rules to reduce the spread of this human borne virus.

    Ranting about who pays what or about what we can't control is just counter productive.  


    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Problem is @Obelixx, staff can't be in 2 places at once.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited April 2020
    No, but, whether they come form the NHS or the private sector, they can be deployed by someone with sense.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Somebody's been dissing CC. I'm biting my tongue so hard, it hurts😉
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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