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Old 21-08-2012, 14:50   #6
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Re: NHS Hospitals to open abroad

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BBC News - Today - Global expansion 'real opportunity' for NHS
Is this really the way to go? sending badly needed Doctors and Nurses abroad?

Wouldn't the money be better invested if companies making medical equipment were formed?

This would help relieve the numbers of workers left idle in depressed areas and would be a better boost to exports than losing NHS staff that are so badly needed here.

Not sure it's as easy as we might imagine to set up a medical equipment company - there are a lot of hoops to be jumped through...

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Also, would staff from this country be sent abroad to run these hospitals? I would have thought staff shortages here are down to a lack of resources rather than a lack of personnel, which might be addressed if money from the foreign ventures were ploughed back in this country.

BBC News - NHS hospital trusts invited to expand abroad

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/he...mployment.html
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