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A new government report has indicated that NHS hospitals are not getting any cleaner, providing yet another reason why people concerned about their health have sought health insurance in the private sector. The same report that single sex wards are still a while off. Both these factors have been underlying concerns for the government, but as of yet, no steps have been taken to remedy them.
The Times newspaper found in a new report due to be published this month, that Healthcare Commission inspectors have found that only one third of hospitals in England meet the top standard for hygiene and sanitation. Private hospitals did better in general than NHS ones.
The report was a true reflection on the real state of the hospitals as inspectors often visited them without warning. They chose 61 NHS hospitals that had poor scores in a patient survey, another 10 that had done well, and 28 randomly chosen private hospitals.
The report only increases the demand for private medical insurance, not forgetting that patients are still forced to wait months for referrals to specialists and the waiting list for certain operations are just getting longer.
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