The time has come for the NHS corporately, and referring clinicians individually, to consider their own responsibility for the safety of NHS patients in private settings.
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.
Peter Walsh outlines the discrepancies in patient safety requirements for private health providers
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It is arguable that Spire Parkway and/or its employees could be held criminally accountable for an offence under section 2 of the Fraud Act 2006.
Read MoreOur take on the latest CQC report on Independent Acute Hospitals.
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Could the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 be used to recuperate money from the disgraced breast surgeon Ian Paterson and his employer, Spire Healthcare?
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A short guide containing some of the key facts about private hospitals that impact patient safety – based on the findings of our latest report No Safety Without Liability
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 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.
Read MoreDr Lorcan Sheppard critiques gaps in accountability
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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 MoreHave lessons been learnt from patient safety lapses amongst private healthcare providers?
Read MoreA selection of illustrative cases
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