Tag Archives: private medicine
Private medicine in public hospitals- Thoughts on Low Thia Khiang’s parliamentary comments Mar 2013
The comments by MP Low Thia Khiang (Specialist Care and Hospital resource 12 Mar 2013) revisit a perennial question of the role of the public hospital in private medicine. It is a difficult issue with no fully satisfactory answers. No private medicine in public hospitals and too many doctors may leave (unless the government funds […]
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Transparency in Pricing Data
The Straits Times published today an article highlighting that Parkway has launched an initiative to make public the prices of common procedures. This is a great start, not perfect but ‘green shoots’ and I hope that this will set in motion a movement towards greater pricing and quality transparency. The Straits Times asked me for a […]