Health
Exclusive: Medical leaders seek to ‘shame’ private hospitals and their staff into supporting NHS – Health Service Journal
NHS England and senior clinical leaders in London are ‘profoundly uncomfortable’ that some routine elective care is continuing in private hospitals, while the NHS…
In a joint letter to all the medical directors of the capitals acute hospital trusts, regional leaders ask them not to support their staff who are performing non-urgent work in the private sector for the next month.
Over the last month the capital has seen a frightening rise in demand from coronavirus patients, with covid bed occupancy rising from around 1,700 at the start of December to more than 7,000 yesterday.
The letter, seen by HSJ, is signed by NHS Englands regional medical director Vin Diwakar, the…
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