No comment from private hospitals

By David Ainsworth, Third Sector, 19 March 2008

Major fee-charging hospitals have said they have no comment to make about new guidance on public benefit and fee-charging.

The guidance, published last week (Third Sector, 12 March), says that accepting clients who are relying on medical insurance will not be enough to demonstrate help for people in poverty. Only if insurance is low-cost or subsidised for people on low incomes will it meet the requirements. "It might be...

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