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Campaigners fighting the privatisation of the NHS have hailed a decision by health chiefs to keep their pathology service in-house as one ‘small victory’.
Dorset County Hospital bosses asked eight different private companies to bid to run the hospital’s own pathology services, but ended up deciding to keep employing their own existing staff.
Trust chairman Dr Jeffrey Ellwood said value for money was important, but quality was too. “With NHS funding under tremendous pressure it is incumbent on the Board of DCH to ensure that services provided are of high quality, are safe and provide value for money for taxpayers - and if we didn’t we would be negligent in our duty,” he said.
http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/...etition-stop/story-23119442-detail/story.html
Dorset County Hospital bosses asked eight different private companies to bid to run the hospital’s own pathology services, but ended up deciding to keep employing their own existing staff.
Trust chairman Dr Jeffrey Ellwood said value for money was important, but quality was too. “With NHS funding under tremendous pressure it is incumbent on the Board of DCH to ensure that services provided are of high quality, are safe and provide value for money for taxpayers - and if we didn’t we would be negligent in our duty,” he said.
http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/...etition-stop/story-23119442-detail/story.html