Typical Outcome Of Privatisation Of Public Service.

[Canary42]

Private company fails to make a profit of a public service so just pulls out leaving a mess for the taxpayer to sort out. Now where have we heard that before ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-30740956

[Gromit]

It may shut those people up who claim the private sector can run everything better.
If this was a pilot scheme for privatising the NHS, then it has failed spectacularly.
If a commercial company is saying it is impossible to run a hospital under the present funding arrangements, then we cannot realy blame inefficient public sector workers for the state of the other hospitals.

[wired]

My OH has two hearing aids, when the local NHS stopped supplying them and the batteries , the contract went to a private company who then underestimated, despite bidding for the contract, the amount and cost of batteries needed - the local hospital then covered them with a 3 months supply.That is small fry by comparison with other practices

[Old_Geezer]

Should be funded properly. Easier if those running it don't want to make profit, but provide service.

[mikey4444]

Its a ruddy shambles. The NHS should be funded properly and managed properly...peoples lives are at risk for goodness sake !

[Peter Pedant]

odd ..... four answers whereas gay Paree has hundreds of answers even though it has nothing to do with us

Quite glad to see it

I thought that Hinchinbrooke was SO important that it would not be allowed to fail and would then be allowed to cherry pick the good bits of the Health Service ( orthopaedics, surgery, eyes ) and not the crappy non paying bits ( ITU A+E, paeds ]

[Sqad]

Not a good example of how the private sector could run a hospital, as it was a "dying duck" at the outset. The prognosis was poor from the start.

The funding of the NHS solely from taxation is untenable......and that is the bottom line.

[Zacs-Master]

Sqad, name me a suitable hospital or Foundation Trust which would be attractive for a private company to run.
You are correct tho; our growing and elderly population is too much of a burden to be funded by tax alone.

[Sqad]

Zac.......no idea, I don't live in the UK and am out of touch, but I gather that this company..Circle, run other hospitals in the UK quite successfully.

There has been a suggestion that Labour and Andy Burnham had " stitched up" the private company encouraging them to take on a "dying duck" so as to compromise the thought of NHS privatisation.

NHS cannot continue in it's present form.

[Zacs-Master]

I think their website needs updating:
http://www.circlepartnership.co.uk/about-circle/media/hinchingbrooke-hospital-named-“best-trust-in-england-for-quality-of-care”

[Gromit]

Sqad
This was the only privately run NHS hospital in the UK.

Circle took over running of the Hospital in 2012, two years after Burnham, and Labour had left office. The idea that they were stitched up by Labour is bogus.

[Sqad]

Gromit...yes...my mistake, the other two hospitals were...private and not NHS.

[Gromit]

No problem sqad.

[buildersmate]

Circle is an employee-owned partnership, a similar business ownership model to that used by John Lewis Partnership. No fat cat shareholders, as some of the above comments about private company might be seeming to imply.

[dave50]

The NHS needs privatising.