It had always been the Thatcherite/Blairite dogma of service provision that the big private companies – whether the likes of Capita, G4S, Serco, A 4E, Atos or the huge US healthcare multinationals – wouold provide all the health services, but the commissioning would be done by the independent public sector. Now even that split, with […]
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The private sector isn’t just providing NHS services, but now commissioning them too
Mar 9th, 2014 by Michael Meacher.NHS Commissioning: Why You Should Care
May 1st, 2013 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.One of the reasons the government have had an easy ride over its plans for the systematic looting of the NHS by Tory-friendly private health companies is the sheer complexity of their restructuring. Unlike, say, the Department for Work and Pensions, where there is a single bureaucracy responsible for administering a particular public service and […]