Re: More than a third of GPs on commissioning groups have conflicts of interest, BMJ investigation shows
I have now lived and worked in Australia for 2 years which has a part publicly and part private insurance based healthcare system.
I have seen several situations where individual patients getting care from doctors with a vested interest in the profit from their business are pointed towards more expensive interventionist treatments.
They were not offered the opportunity to try other options first, and national guidelines have been entirely ignored.
Doctors commisioning services should be paid for the work done and not benefit from the profits of the organisation concerned to ensure that all options are presented to patients in an unbiased way.
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Re: More than a third of GPs on commissioning groups have conflicts of interest, BMJ investigation shows
I have now lived and worked in Australia for 2 years which has a part publicly and part private insurance based healthcare system.
I have seen several situations where individual patients getting care from doctors with a vested interest in the profit from their business are pointed towards more expensive interventionist treatments.
They were not offered the opportunity to try other options first, and national guidelines have been entirely ignored.
Doctors commisioning services should be paid for the work done and not benefit from the profits of the organisation concerned to ensure that all options are presented to patients in an unbiased way.
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