The Curmudgeon

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Saturday, May 23, 2009

Throw Physick to the Dogs

The New New Labour concept of public health care has been vigorously applied by NHS Tayside, which has used perhaps three million pounds of public money to pay a private clinic for little more than doctored papers and statistical massage. The clinic was paid for a minimum number of referrals per month, without regard to such minor matters as how many patients were actually referred and whether they received any treatment. "This contract shows the complex payment mechanism increases the risks and costs to the health boards", conclude two busybodies from Edinburgh University, who have demonstrated once again that the Freedom of Information Act holds perils for profiteers far beyond the Mother of Parliaments. Fortunately, the rules are different in England, so the risks and costs to the health boards are confidential, and somehow such sacred secrets don't seem to get left on trains quite as frequently as others.

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