Hi Ray,
Very interesting! As far as I can see there is one and only reason why a huge corporation would take over hospital departments like ours 1) To grease the palms of their share holders by 2) increasing their empire. The patient and the taxpayer, like you, and me are irrelevant in these calculations. Not once in all their rhetoric has the patient been mentioned.
Also the say, quote “and supply contracts allow a 4%saving on existing maintenance contracts whereas going direct can achieve a minimum of a 10%.GE can purchase Keymed components from alternative routes of supply.” Our Trust went to an alternative supplier of a contract to maintain endoscopes, which incidentally was a G.E. run company, because it was “cheap” thereafter the Trust fell flat on it's fat face because some of the scopes were unable to be repaired because the parts were not available, so they had to go back to Keymed at vast expense, you can imagine the smug look on Keymed's face, but who can blame them, because they are making out of it at the of the day.
Have they forgotten “caveat emptor”?
