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NHS patients are putting their lives at risk by opting for operations in private hospitals which lack the facilities to deal with emergencies if things go wrong, senior doctors have warned.
More than a quarter of the 1.6 million operations conducted by private hospitals last year were carried out on NHS patients and GPs are increasingly being encouraged to refer more of them to the private sector, partly to ease the burden on NHS hospitals.
Doctors are also warning that the guidelines governing private hospitals, particularly concerning deaths and other serious cases, are not as stringent as they are in the NHS.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...al-with-emergencies-study-finds-10078928.html
More than a quarter of the 1.6 million operations conducted by private hospitals last year were carried out on NHS patients and GPs are increasingly being encouraged to refer more of them to the private sector, partly to ease the burden on NHS hospitals.
Doctors are also warning that the guidelines governing private hospitals, particularly concerning deaths and other serious cases, are not as stringent as they are in the NHS.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...al-with-emergencies-study-finds-10078928.html