NHS: 5 million surgery target, plus 250,000 private?:
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
The UK's National Health Service (NHS) aims to perform five million surgical procedures in 2004-05, health secretary John Reid has confirmed. The government may purchase a further 250,000 from the spare capacity of the private sector, provided, he says, they can be done at the same cost as under the NHS.
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