22 December 2015 (Tuesday) - Taking a Bung

Is this the future?

It is no secret that large parts of the NHS are going out to private tender and blood testing is not exempt from this.

In America where blood testing has always been privatized a scandal has been exposed in which agents of private laboratories are bribing medial practitioners to use their services over and above those of their competitors.

Furthermore they were bribing doctors to perform unnecessary blood tests.

At the moment there is little market for this in the UK pathology scene. But when we are all privatized will things be different?