Privatizing England’s National Health Service may have led to a decline in the quality of patient care, according to research that links increased outsourcing to for-profit providers with higher death rates in the public system.
Legislation passed in 2012, allowing greater outsourcing of health services is associated with a rise in deaths that should have been avoidable, a group of University of Oxford researchers said Wednesday, in a study published in The Lancet Public Health journal.
