Private Sector Partnerships in the NHS
The changing clinical and regulatory environment
The challenges of rising demand and treatment costs, need for improvement and need for meeting lower budgets has implications across all units and wards of UK hospitals and certainly does not spare the operating theatre from change.
Commissioned by Synergy Health, our report aims to shed light on how better public service outcomes can be achieved through a partnership approach and what the challenges are to achieving more successful partnerships in the NHS.
The challenges of rising demand and treatment costs, need for improvement and need for meeting lower budgets has implications across all units and wards of UK hospitals and certainly does not spare the operating theatre from change.
This research report is based on findings from a quantitative survey amongst UK surgeons and in-depth qualitative interviews with NHS Financial Directors.
The topic of our conversation was the developing concept of private sector partnerships in health delivery in the United Kingdom, with a focus on one particular area of service provision ? the decontamination of reusable surgical instruments.
Surgeons are at the forefront of the most advanced, most challenging service delivery by the NHS, life-saving and life-changing surgery, thereby representing one of the key audiences of senior decision makers in need of smooth-running, efficient services.
You can read the full report here.
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