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ANALYSIS: Reliance on private sector to solve waiting list scandal will come at major cost if surgical training crisis and nursing shortage not tackled

The private sector has been employed by the health service to carry out hip replacements on waiting list patients
Seanín Graham
IT'S almost a decade since a private healthcare company was leased an entire floor of a new NHS hospital to carry out hundreds of operations and slash waiting lists. There was an outcry over the move[...]

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