The myth of the 'efficient' private sector has been busted by Covid | Rosie Collington

Last Friday, as towns and cities across the UK faced up to renewed lockdown restrictions, executives at Serco had reason to celebrate.

A company wants to make a profit in whatever way it can. Either by being innovative and efficient and by selling good quality products in a competitive free market. Or ... by lobbying the government, acquiring a monopoly position and selling inferior products at outrageous prices

Pretty sure Amazon saved our skins during lockdown.

Busted long ago.Our government is forced to go to a few huge companies because they have done nothing to increase competition which was supposed to be the reason to outsource huge chunks of our civil service.

They are perfectly efficient. Charge the maximum amount of money for the least acceptable output.

Confused private sector with state corruption.

The Government has not learnt from experience... telecoms, rail, gas, water, electricity, prisons, probation, immigration and so on ... all failures as only driven by profits and not in the public interest! Covid testing no different!

Companies operating in the private sector are indeed generally efficient. Procurement of private sector services by public sector organisations however is not. It's the procurement bit that fails - the buyer has insufficient skills to get a good deal, and cronyism does the rest.

NZ's Track and Trace works well keeping COVID19 out of the community. It's run by the Government and not for profit - maybe that has something to do with its success

Wasn't this myth busted by the London Olympics, probation etc etc

Private firms acting under the direction of government, subcontracting to provide public services are now the 'private sector'? OK, Guarvid-19. Go with that. And yr thousandth Covid 'if only'. If only a vaster public health apparatus had tested & traced the virus into submission!

IT HAS NEVER BEEN ABOUT EFFICIENCY. BUT ABOUT PROFIT.

. Whether private or public, it always depends on the quality of management. There are examples of totally inefficient public & failed private sector services (multiple fat-cat management layers & non-jobs everywhere during Labour times vs. failed PPE during BoJo‘s time).

We're burning out here in the west. the better people of the world have been trying for a half century to end this addiction to greed and save the future for humanity and nature. We need the biosphere and not the billionaires.

Yep. Also👇

This seems a very broad ranging conclusion

private companies come and go. that is what makes the system efficient

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