After the breast surgeon was sentenced to 15 years for performing unnecessary operations on cancer patients, Colin Leys considers what the inevitable inquiry could mean for private hospitals.
Read MorePrivate hospitals are being used more and more by the NHS to perform operations. Because these hospitals are very different to NHS hospitals, CHPI has undertaken work to identify and assess the unique patient safety issues with this form of for-profit healthcare provision.
This report uses findings from the Care Quality Commission’s new inspection regime for private hospitals to show that there continue to be risks to patient safety associated with the distinctive nature of private hospitals in England, compared with the NHS.
Read MoreDr Lorcan Sheppard critiques gaps in accountability
Read MoreHave lessons been learnt from patient safety lapses amongst private healthcare providers?
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This report brings together what is known about patient safety in private hospitals. It offers new insights into the number of patient safety incidents in private hospitals, analyses the potential risks inherent in the way that these services operate, and makes recommendations to improve transparency in the private sector.
Read MorePeter Walsh outlines the discrepancies in patient safety requirements for private health providers
Read MoreA new world-wide concern about patient safety developed in the 1990s with the realisation that more and more surgery was taking place and that the significant and persisting level of complications from surgery was largely the result of faulty systems for preventing them.
Read MoreA selection of illustrative cases
Read MoreA collection of reports sourced in our 2014 report into Patient Safety in Private Hospitals, which attempted to collate what little information was available about the quality and outcomes of care in private hospitals.
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