WE SELDOM get clear views of the future, but your front page article starkly reveals a hazard for our National Health Service (The Press, January 13).
Your report is about a patient who has been abandoned by a private health company that was ready to take her money for cosmetic surgery, but will not accept responsibility for treating a problematic implant.
The company concerned, Transform Cosmetic Surgery, like the Harley Group, wants the Government to step in and put matters right. Andrew Lansley, Secretary of State for Health, is right to say that private health companies have a moral duty to make reparations. But the same minister is overseeing the final stages of a destructive Health Reform Bill that will undermine the NHS by making it easier for similar problems to happen over and over again.
Even at this late stage, the Government should reconsider its proposal to give such wide scope for private health companies to make profits while expecting taxpayers to deal with any problems that arise. The proposed reforms should be cancelled.
Janet Griffiths, Patrick Griffiths, St Oswald’s Road, York.
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