Independent sector regulation. Privates on parade.
The government's proposal to set up a new regulatory body for the private and voluntary sectors is regrettable. The major hospital groups in the private sector could undertake some system of clinical governance. Whatever form regulation takes, it must be supported by much better information on the private sector, including consultants' activity rates and rates of re-admission and numbers of transfers to NHS hospitals.
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Centre for the Analysis of Social Policy, Bath University.
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D005161:Facility Regulation and Control; D016304:Hospitals, Private / Q000592:standards*; D008485:Medical Audit; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom