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Health service commissioning may be scrapped in UK National Health Service

March 30, 2010

Analysis of:House of Commons Health Committee Commissioning 4th report | www.publications.parliament.uk

The Health Committee of UK MPs have today published a damning report on the quality of NHS commissioning of healthcare services. Basically the attempt to introduce a provider/purchaser split has failed, and this report shows this. It's final quote is powerful,"If reliable figures for the costs of commissioning prove that it is uneconomic and if itdoes not begin to improve soon, after 20 years of costly failure, thepurchaser/provider split may need to be abolished."

False economy by companies

August 27, 2008

Analysis of:Healthways' Guidance Not So Healthy | www.forbes.com

Healthways is currently struggling, but hopfully this will only be a temporary local difficulty. In the long run Healthways provides a good service

Not too surprising a result

August 18, 2008

Analysis of:Heart Stents No Better Than Drugs for Chest Pain Over Time | www.bloomberg.com

You can only open up an artery so far. Whether you achieve this with drugs, or a mechanical device doesn't seem to matter as long as the blood gets flowing again.

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