Public hospital service attacked
PA Wellington The cervical cancer experiment at Auckland’s National Women’s Hospital would have been detected earlier if hospital services were privatised, the Opposition spokeswoman on finance, Miss Ruth Richardson, said. She told a public meeting in Richmond, near Nelson, that a National government would look to the private sector to play a greater role in social care so consumers had more choices. She said . the consequence of lack of choice was shown up with the “scandal” at National Women’s.
"Lives could have been saved.”
She said it was easier for social-care monopolies to treat people as “guinea Pigs-”
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