{"id":261196,"date":"2025-11-13T21:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/261196\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T21:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:49:10","slug":"firm-run-by-nhs-doctors-makes-millions-charging-to-cut-wait-lists-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/261196\/","title":{"rendered":"Firm run by NHS doctors makes millions charging to cut wait lists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Glanso UK founder, UHBW consultant anaesthetist Dr Rasburn, told the BBC the firm came into its own during the Covid lockdown when operating theatres were generally closed for routine work. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Rasburn said, for example, that a typical NHS list saw 2.7 gallbladder operations completed a day. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But he said his firm&#8217;s teams were able to &#8220;go much quicker&#8221; as they were made up of only senior clinicians and theatre staff, who were not teaching as they worked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said a Glanso list on a Saturday would complete seven cases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What we found in working this way, [is that] we got through more cases for any given time,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Rasburn said Glanso UK&#8217;s model was safe, adding people volunteering for shifts were able to work in their own environment, with their colleagues, which he said also &#8220;helps with the efficiency&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said Glanso UK had treated more than 1,000 children since 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glanso UK founder, UHBW consultant anaesthetist Dr Rasburn, told the BBC the firm came into its own during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-261196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}