FAST FACTS - Public-Private Partnerships Why we should say NO to Maples Surgical Centre

After taking a turn for the worse,woman, visibly in pain, urged the Doer govern- she was stabilized but we were warned that the nextment to allow the Maples Surgical Centre to 48 hours would be critical. [...] What it does do is take money out of the The point of this story is that there are indeed many system and put it directly into someone’s pocket. [...] The media add fuel to the public-private deal put forward by the Maples Surgical fire by highlighting the bad news stories. [...] But these why the private-for-profit model does not work for health improvements should build on the many strengths of care and he concludes that non-profit care is, in gen- the public health care system now in place, and should eral, less costly and of better quality. [...] The fact of the matter is that this is an ideological issue.