Lansley threatens to sack NHS chiefs who ration care to save money

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Source: The Guardian

Health secretary Andrew Lansley is to announce that he is prepared to sack NHS bosses who attempt to save money by rationing treatment or making patients wait longer for operations.

The move, which comes amid unprecedented pressure on the health service to save £20bn, is a response to a damning July report by the Co-operation and Competition Panel (CCP), which accused primary care trusts (PCTs) of "reducing or delaying access to care".

The panel warned that some patients could die because a majority of PCTs, the bodies that control health budgets, were forcing patients to wait a minimum of 15 weeks – a measure "likely to impose greater pain and inconvenience than is necessary".

The watchdog claimed the move was designed to shorten waiting lists – and save money in the short term – as patients "die or pay for their own treatment".

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/nov/14/andrew-lansley-prepared-to-sack-pct-chiefs

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Meanwhile, in the US, people like Stephen J. Hemsley don't get punished for rationing care for profit!

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1. Mr. Hemsley fully realizes that the Congress has codified the bidness of America

is bidness precept. :patriot: