Novara Media: US Health Companies Are Winning NHS Contracts Despite Dodgy Track Records
“Chronically ill patients and their carers at a London hospital are fighting back against the privatisation of their care, as new data reveals the dire state of NHS commissioning.
The Camberwell Satellite Dialysis Unit cares for dozens of kidney patients, many of whom will spend 12 hours a week getting dialysis. Despite sitting in a dated, metallic building hidden in a small industrial estate with a dodgy water supply, patients told Novara Media that the centre provides excellent care and that the staff are like family to them.
That could all be set to change, however, as the service is set to be outsourced to Diaverum – a global private healthcare giant with a questionable track record…
Diaverum runs a dialysis empire across Europe’s private healthcare systems. But privatisation also opens the NHS up to US health companies. Analysis by Violation Tracker US and reviewed by Novara Media shows that healthcare giants that have been paid out billions of dollars in cases related to corruption, fraud and offering negligent service that killed patients in the US are being paid hundreds of millions of pounds to run NHS kidney care.”
Read the full story at Novara Media.