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Regional councilors' opinion on private hospitals inclusion in the NHS in Italy 2018
A survey conducted in 2018 investigated what Italian regional councilors thought about the inclusion of private hospitals in the framework of the National Healthcare Service. According to survey result, 63 percent of the regional administrators interviewed, declared to be very favorable towards the inclusion of private hospitals in the framework of the NHS, while 34 percent of them stated that pubic resources should be preferably addressed towards public facilities. Lastly, according to three percent of the respondents, private hospitals should be totally excluded from the NHS.