To ask why private hospitals can’t be requisitioned again

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They were in the first wave why can’t private hospitals be requestioned by the NHS?

Dhs pays a lot more than £80!

And this year the local private hospital has been doing a lot more NHS cases...rightly in my opinion. Going private is still quicker

Friends of mine work there and apparently there were complaints from some customers and a lot more people paying for private treatment

It works both ways, i saw a private consultant recently and had some tests in a nhs hospital and one in the private hospital

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Mine wasn’t aimed at your post

@ekidmxcl

And it seems ludicrous to requisition functioning hospitals when we have the nightingales.

No staff to work in them.

Private hospitals vary in what they can and do provide. I worked for one that had HDU and ICU so could do things like bypass surgery.

Although if you had problems after you would be seen by an OBGYN until your consultant could get in (as the hospital had maternity services it was the most logical RMO to have).

The OBGYNs were on a rota from an NHS hospital so they were paid by the NHS but the private hospital paid the NHS hospital for providing the service.

The hospital I worked at implanted pacemakers, but the other private hospital near by didn't so their patients came to us for implants and then we walked over to them to do final checks before discharge.

As a PP stated, you have to be careful who you send to a PH because of the facilities and the staffing.

Mostly NHS patients come along with some NHS staff.

@Crumbleandcake don't worry your choices are still there, the plebs from the NHS are basically renting a space and some other services.

You are safe to choose the hospital you like, although if you are having a pacemaker fitted then the Portland is probably not the best choice. Likewise John and Lizzies, probably not the best choice for maternity care.

For everyone hating on this post, imagine you were paying £80 a month for a lovely car on PCP and the government decided that everyone with a free bus pass was now entitled to use your car. Bet you’d feel different then!

How is that a valid comparison? Lots of patients use private hospitals and in fact, some NHS care already takes place there.

When you pay for private healthcare, you pay for better choices, not for your own private hospital with your own personal doctor and health team!

There is some confusion over private hospitals

I had a cosmetic procedure done...something whet wrong while healing (not surgeon or hospitals fault)

And a friend said ‘ well thats what happens when you go private’

She didnt have a clue that the surgeon was NHS doing private on the side (cousin of mine used to do hip replacements as a side gig as a surgeon)

@R3adh3ad3dGirl

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A healthy lifestyle can slash costs.

So can being young!

If I was 35, I might find it tempting, but I'm 65 and would (presumably) be paying closer to the 70 year old's rate.

Some policies dont cover everything, so some diagnostic tests arent covered

Some have large excesses

Loads don’t include all the bells and whistles

So some insurance can be cheap, but not singing and dancing ones

In fact the last time i went to a consultant and dd they wanted to run a large number of blood tests and we were told that not all of them would be covered on some policies and it could end up expensive

@Pyewhacket

Covid isn’t flu, it causes multi organ failure. You can’t treat that in a private hospital.

What has the faulty comparison with flu got to do with hospitals?

Flu certainly causes multiple organ failure. It also kills tens of thousands per year, despite us having a jab for it. Many years some hospitals are nearly swamped with flu patients. But for many people with a dose of flu, just like Covid, will not even need to stay in bed.

Let's not minimize a serious and dangerous disease (flu) to emphasise the potential dangers of another.

I am an NHS nurse who retired and returned. The problem is not lack of buildings it is lack of specialist trained staff. There are no suitably qualified staff to staff the Nightingales and the consultants who work in private hospitals are the same consultants who work in the NHS. It takes many years to train specialist staff, they cannot be trained in days, weeks or even months. I think that is the key problem that many people don't quite realise.

Well there are staff in our nightingale. A relative just got sent an appointment in it. Not covid related but it’s being used.

I work in a NHS hospital arranging MRI Scans. I know that the private hospital next to us is still doing NHS Cancer Surgery and some other routine work. They are also helping us clear the backlog of patients needing some certain MRI scan.

How long it will last for, who knows, but our manager wants us to use them while we can as without them, people would be waiting maybe more than 3 months for a routine scan(has to be done within 5wks normally). They have been extremally helpful to us at the moment

When you have health insurance, you have it so you can choose your hospital and consultant and generally not have to wait, not to keep all the NHS using plebs away.