• ‘Betting against the NHS’: £1bn private hospital to open in central

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THE GUARDIAN -  Londra  - (Julia Collewe) - US-owned Cleveland Clinic London is in talks about providing care for NHS patients but critics fear moves to two-tier health system new 184-bed private hospital is about to open in London, the second-largest in the capital, where patients will enjoy views of Buckingham Palace and will be treated by doctors understood to be paid up to £350,000 a year. 

It provides a stark contrast with the NHS, which is buckling under the strain of record waiting lists, backlogs for cancer care and routine operations and a resurgence of Covid cases that is putting pressure on wards and staffing... >>>