Sunday, August 06, 2006

UK hospital fined for giving prompt treatments

This is not a joke. This is the inevitable result state run healthcare.

H/T Small Dead Animals
BBC
A hospital has lost £2.5m in funding for treating patients too quickly....

Ipswich Hospital agreed with the East Suffolk Primary Care Trusts, which fund treatment, that patients should wait at least four months for treatment.

However, doctors had treated patients inside that time and the trust refused to pay the £2.5m cost of treatment...

An Ipswich Hospital spokeswoman described the incident as a "local glitch"...

The government has said patients should wait no longer than six months before treatment...

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