The biggest healthcare company in the world which funded Mitt Romney\u2019s presidential election campaign is reported to be expanding into the UK\u2019s NHS.<\/p>\n
HCA International Ltd has a UK branch based in London and has been steadily developing this side of its business ever since the Health & Social Care Act was passed by the UK parliament last year.<\/p>\n
With healthcare insurance set to radically grow in Britain over the coming years, HCA believes the time is right to expand its provision.<\/p>\n
HCA currently runs two of the country\u2019s most notable private clinics in Britain namely Harley Street Clinic and Portland Hospital.<\/p>\n
Interestingly, HCA has forged links with University College Hospital London (UCH), Queen\u2019s Hospital in Romford, Essex, and The Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester to form a joint NHS venture.<\/p>\n
Queen\u2019s has been renting wards to HCA since 2010, and is planning to offer more space to the American company.<\/p>\n
The Health & Social Care Act is a very controversial piece of legislation that many people both internal and external of the medical profession believe has just one aim \u2013 to privatise the NHS.<\/p>\n
The government denies this, but others will see that HCA\u2019s further involvement in NHS hospitals is a step closer to the end of a free NHS and the furtherance introduction of private health insurance<\/a>.<\/p>\n The value of private healthcare in the NHS is said to have grown by 5.3% since 2011 to \u00a3471 million. The previous year it was \u00a3448 million.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The biggest healthcare company in the world which funded Mitt Romney\u2019s presidential election campaign is reported to be expanding into the UK\u2019s NHS. HCA International Ltd has a UK branch based in London and has been steadily developing this side of its business ever since the Health & Social Care Act was passed by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888008809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[1722,1723,331,1724],"class_list":["post-2494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-health","tag-hca-international","tag-health-and-social-care-act","tag-nhs","tag-nhs-privatisation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t