New study links hospital privatisation to worse patient care
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-02-29-new-study-links-hospital-privatisation-worse-patient-care
New study links hospital privatisation to worse patient care
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-02-29-new-study-links-hospital-privatisation-worse-patient-care
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A new review has concluded that hospitals that are privatised typically deliver worse quality care after converting from public ownership. The study, led by University of Oxford researchers, has been published in The Lancet Public Health.
The researchers carried out a meta-analysis based on evidence from 13 longitudinal studies, covering a range of high-income countries. Each study assessed quality of healthcare measures for patients before and after health service privatisation, at either the hospital or regional level. The studies included measured indicators of care quality which included staffing levels, patient mix by insurance type, the number of services provided, workload for doctors, and health outcomes for patients such as avoidable hospitalisations.
A business that profits on their own failure shouldn’t be private.
New study confirms what everybody already knows. Greed gets people killed. Who would have thought.
Amazing. Syphoning off profit doesn’t leave more for patient care. Wow!
Privatization is about profit, making money for the rich. That has always been the only reason.
Private hospitals in my area are way better than the others. Its all case by case
“Wow, I’m shocked by this incredible revelation.”
~ literally no one.
It’s almost like when the goal of a private company is profit, that profit is prioritized over the service provided