Monday, 1 June 2009

Elderly left at risk by NHS bidding wars to find cheapest care with reverse auctions

Top story in Community Care mag's online round-up of today's newspapers:


Elderly left at risk by NHS bidding wars to find cheapest care with reverse auctions

An online auction system developed for councils to buy cheap wheelie bins and stationery is being used to buy end-of-life and dementia care for vulnerable elderly people.

The NHS in London has held a series of 30 “reverse e-auctions”, where bids are driven down instead of up, for £195 million worth of contracts for palliative and dementia care for patients leaving hospital.

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