> The hospital construction industry is huge and wouldn't want that.
Sounds very much like a them problem (assuming a government since 1948 could show such intestinal fortitude).
> hospitals have become luxury
Only if you allow the private sector to completely capture the entire industry from top to bottom including government and regulatory function (in the same way the US automotive industry made light trucks basically illegal where they could).
That process of top-to-bottom capture having not yet been fully completed in the UK, I don't think you'll find an NHS hospital, even a new one, especially luxurious. A BUPA one, probably yes (but they also don't have expensive money sinks like grubby un-insured and un-moneyed patients, A&E departments to run or junior staff to train).
And there's no reason you can't have luxury modules as an upsell, or even third party compatible models. It's how aircraft are configured. You get an empty fuselage and you choose the modules. But the difference is you could fit the same modules to the medical versions of Airbuses and Boeings.
Sounds very much like a them problem (assuming a government since 1948 could show such intestinal fortitude).
> hospitals have become luxury
Only if you allow the private sector to completely capture the entire industry from top to bottom including government and regulatory function (in the same way the US automotive industry made light trucks basically illegal where they could).
That process of top-to-bottom capture having not yet been fully completed in the UK, I don't think you'll find an NHS hospital, even a new one, especially luxurious. A BUPA one, probably yes (but they also don't have expensive money sinks like grubby un-insured and un-moneyed patients, A&E departments to run or junior staff to train).
And there's no reason you can't have luxury modules as an upsell, or even third party compatible models. It's how aircraft are configured. You get an empty fuselage and you choose the modules. But the difference is you could fit the same modules to the medical versions of Airbuses and Boeings.