According to a regulator, many private primary health care services and slimming clinics are flouting the rules

Nearly half of private primary care and slimming clinics in England do not provide safe care, warned the country's health care regulator.

For its new report, the Quality of Care Commission badyzed a sample of inspection reports from private primary health care services, including general medical services and specialty clinics.1

Security has been identified as the biggest problem in the private primary care sector. In particular, he raised concerns about the safety and effectiveness of prescribing, poor record keeping and the fact that clinicians do not communicate their activity with the patient's general practitioner. This was often related to …