Transformed: The failing NHS trust taken over by private firm

[Northerner]

The first NHS trust to be run entirely by a private firm has one of the highest levels of patient satisfaction in the country.
Hinchingbrooke, a hospital in Cambridgeshire with 160,000 patients, was on the verge of going bust when it was taken over by Circle last year.
But NHS figures show it is now ranked as one of the highest for patient happiness and waiting times.

The company running the trust has slashed losses at the hospital by 60 per cent and will soon begin to pay off burgeoning debts built up over years of mismanagement. The takeover deal, which saved the hospital from closing down, is seen as a blueprint for the future of many NHS trusts.
The George Eliot Hospital in Warwickshire is already considering adopting the model.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ling-NHS-trust-taken-private-firm-Circle.html

 

[trophywench]

That really is incredible.

Well done Circle I say.

I guess though that it comes with it now being a small business, IYSWIM - where employees actually have to take responsibility for summat, whereas they've never been ALLOWED to before.