A core of free NHS services will remain, but they will be of declining quality, because for-profit providers will cherry-pick the most profitable services.
16 However, opponents contend that specialty hospitals have lower quality and higher costs, since they are for-profit and specialise in only the most profitable services, target healthier patients who are more well-off and induce demand for their specialised services.
While your oil is changed, the sales associates will offer to change your air filter, perform a transmission fluid change and do a variety of other more profitable services in the hopes of increasing the profit margin.
They discovered four steps to developing a profitable services capability.
Both would rather use the capacity teletext occupies for more profitable services.
Profitable services (such as radiology) subsidize unprofitable services (such as mental health care).
Corporate ownership can mean cutting "unprofitable" services and shipping "profitable" services to powerful hospitals in other communities.
The private sector will cherrypick the most profitable services, leaving the NHS without the critical mass to provide the rest.
The worry was that the integrity of auditing, a comparatively unglamorous and low-margin business, would be jeopardised as firms struggled to sell more exciting and profitable services.
Three airports on easyJet's agenda - Inverness, the Isle of Man and Jersey - have lost links from Heathrow over the years, with slots deployed on more profitable services.
