The Guardian Article Rating

Revealed: NHS trusts tell patients to go private and jump hospital queues

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    -4% Center

  • Reliability

    75% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    -4% Center

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Great Western hospitals NHS trust in Wiltshire offers private healthcare through a 20-bed unit, the Shalbourne suite.
58% : Under the Health and Social Care Act 2012, NHS hospital trusts were permitted to generate up to 49% of their income from private patients.
57% : The Department of Health and Social Care said: "NHS hospitals have always been able to generate small amounts of additional income by treating private patients, which can then be used to improve the services that NHS patients receive."

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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