NHS Hospitals Aim To Start Clinics In India

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The NHS has strong brand recognition in India and UK hospitals hope selling their expertise abroad could generate new income.

"Our ambition is to get as many (NHS trusts, health companies and charities) there as we can," Ms Hewitt told the Health Service Journal.

The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust in North London is in early negotiations with the MIOT Hospital in Chennai to help run a screening programme for the fatal blood disorder thalassemia.

Other NHS organisations, including the Royal Free and King's College hospitals and the London Ambulance Trust, travelled to India in May as part of a delegation led by Cabinet minister Kenneth Clarke.

Ms Hewitt said income from overseas clinics could help the NHS plug a funding gap that is expected to hit ?30bn in 2020.

The Department of Health said: "NHS patients will always come first, but we should help and support the health service to compete internationally for the benefit of its patients in England.
"Under no circumstances will the quality of NHS services at home be compromised by the sharing of NHS expertise abroad.

"We have no intention to send NHS patients to India for treatment."

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at least the hospital food will be tastier

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Looks like somebody has a corrupt module or water ingress, look at that wacky CAN signal

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I wonder why they will call NHS hospital in foreign country when UK public will not benefit!!!!

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at least the hospital food will be tastier

Did you say food tastier!!
Vegetarian country no Meat, Pork, Chicken, Eggs, etc.

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At least they'll understand the helpline when they phone in with an illness.

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Did you say food tastier!!
Vegetarian country no Meat, Pork, Chicken, Eggs, etc.

vegetarian country my arse,and since when as eggs been regarded as a meat product

[gopher7]

Most of the doctors will feel right at home there.

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vegetarian country my arse,and since when as eggs been regarded as a meat product

In India prohibiting the slaughter of cows and calves and other milch and draught cattle."
What comes out of the egg sperm is an animal duff!!!!!!!!

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The Department of Health said: "NHS patients will always come first, but we should help and support the health service to compete internationally for the benefit of its patients in England.
"Under no circumstances will the quality of NHS services at home be compromised by the sharing of NHS expertise abroad.

They'd find it a bit difficult compromising something that is already in crisis. We don't appear to be capable of treating our own patients let alone those in other countries. What's the betting that this means that while the NHS is treating patients in India that the 'cover' in the UK is provided by a raft of bank nurses at twice the cost to the NHS as it's making.....