Isomatic UK Weblog

We have now had a good opportunity to compare a National Health Service hospital with the adjoining private hospital. Conclusions:
1) The senior doctors and surgeons are the same because they all work in both.
2) The furnishings, floor covering and general ambience are far superior in the private hospital.
3) The electronic equipment is very similar but there are specialist machines in the NHS hospital that are unavailable in the private hospital.
4) The food in the NHS hospital has improved enormously in the last 18 months so that it is almost as good as in the private hospital.
5) Senior nursing staff in the private hospital are more inclined to 'hands-on' work than in the NHS, where they just supervise.
6) The NHS is less officious about infringements of the rules, e.g. use of mobile 'phones, most important when one is trying to run a business while visiting one's wife in hospital every day.