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UK: Private healthcare managers to infiltrate state-run hospitals

Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, June 10, 2008

Under new measures designed to help poorly performing hospitals under Britain's National Health Service (NHS), the government has announced a plan that would allow managers from the private healthcare sector to work in NHS hospitals, reports the Times (London).

Hospitals will have to keep up with tough performance measures, including a new measure surrounding the levels of C. difficile and other superbug infections, to avoid layoffs and new management. Twenty NHS trusts are currently classified as "weak" in the government's reporting system.

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