Government health reforms still pose an "unacceptably high risk to the NHS" and should be scrapped, according to the British Medical Association (BMA).
Chief among the BMA's fears is that foundation trusts will seek to generate far more income from private patients at the detriment of NHS services. This would be made possible by the proposed removal of the cap on private income that foundation trusts are allowed to earn. Howard Hughes, head of employee marketing at Simplyhealth, told COVER he also thought this could be the case. Speaking about availability of choice to private patients, Hughes said: "There's always more choice than you might think. "The NHS is there, which I think will get keener to provide private beds and oth...
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