Are cash-only medical practices only limited to the wealthy?

When you think about it, how much care does the average patient really need? Over at Better Health, Val Jones writes that 75 percent of patients require an average of 3.5 office visits annually for all the medical care they need. That works out to about 1 hour of a physician’s time per year.

How much is that worth? Well, the going rate is about $300. For a year. Read more »

The 26 PCTs in London without debts will see 1.3% of their budgets go towards paying off the deficits of 10 hospital trusts and Hillingdon PCT.

A further 304m will be top-sliced from NHS London’s budget to pay off the debts. NHS London predicts London trusts will have accumulated a deficit of 579m by 2011 if no action is taken.

NHS London said the move would ensure all trusts were on an ‘even keel’ and Read more »