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Socialist Resistance no7 | page 5-6

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.... currently in the queue for treatment in over-stretched NHS hospitals. As small units detached from any A&E services, the theory is that DTCs would be able to maximise the numbers treated without the disruption of finding beds for emergencies.

While the NHS is intended to run 46 DTCs, I1 have been earmarked for private bidders and another eight would be jointly run by the NHS and private sector.

It is expected that the 65 units will deliver up to 300,000 operations a year, but their impact on existing services and local NHS Trusts has not yet been explored. It is clear that the cash would follow the patient.

Private companies bidding for DTC contracts have to guarantee that they will bring in the staff needed to run the entire operation, without poaching scarce professionals from the NHS: this inevitably means that they are based abroad, though one Canadian company has joined up with Jarvis - a British firm embroiled in private contracts ranging from rail maintenance to school and hospital PFls. A new market system.

Milburn is phasing out the system of

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