Re:Health insurers just published close to a trillion hospit...
by DanBC on Wednesday September 07, 2022 @02:47PM
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> U.K. is 100% government run
I know I'm a broken record on this but people who say this are simply wrong.
1) There is not one NHS for the UK. Health is devolved and there are totally separate systems for NI, Scotland, Wales, and England.
2) Speaking only for England, it's not "run by the government". The NHS in England is run by NHS England and Improvement. The people who work for NHSE/I are not civil servants, they do not work for the government.
I know I'm a broken record on this but people who say this are simply wrong.
1) There is not one NHS for the UK. Health is devolved and there are totally separate systems for NI, Scotland, Wales, and England.
2) Speaking only for England, it's not "run by the government". The NHS in England is run by NHS England and Improvement. The people who work for NHSE/I are not civil servants, they do not work for the government.