The NHS is firmly on the Road to Privatisation. The promise to protect the NHS and to halt any top down reorganisation lasted up until the point David Cameron became Prime Minister. Without any mandate David Cameron undertook the largest top down reorganisation since the foundation of the NHS, laying the framework for the whole […]
Posts Tagged ‘NHS’
Is this the kind of US healthcare system the UK is headed for?
Aug 19th, 2014 by Michael Meacher.A deep and alarming insight into US healthcare has recently been published by two authoritative figures within the system which holds profoundly worrying lessons for where UK healthcare may be heading under the Tory Health and Social Care Act of 2012. Healthcare in the US is a magnet for thieves. Medicaid hands out $415bn a […]
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Marketisation gives NHS managers £1.6bn redundancy, care workers 25% pay cut
Aug 13th, 2014 by Michael Meacher.The market degrades all decent human instincts of fairness and concern for others. Two events in the last few weeks dramatically expose how far this corruption of the values of the health service and social care has now gone. One was the publication of the latest Department of Health accounts which shows payouts to some […]
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Labour’s united against NHS privatisation (well, almost)
Aug 7th, 2014 by Jon Lansman.At last Labour is united against privatising the NHS: Andy Burnham has attacked “the sheer audacity of the [Tory] plan to treat the NHS as another utility to be broken up and privatised.” He is clear that “the market is not the answer to 21st century care.”(Andy is not top of the shadow cabinet rankings by a […]
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How long can the NHS go on like this?
Jul 26th, 2014 by Michael Meacher.The number of NHS trusts referred to the Department of Health because of financial irregularities has increased almost 4-fold in 2013-4 compared to the previous year. The Audit Commission has just reported that 19 trusts, about 1 in 5,were flagged as financially failing. Similarly 24 clinical commissioning groups, about 1 in 9, were also referred […]
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Government have lost control of the NHS
Jun 25th, 2014 by Grahame Morris.David Cameron once promised the health service was safe in his hands, he said his priority could be summed up in three letters – NHS. To highlight his commitment the Conservative Party prior to the election repeatedly promised “no more top down reorganisations”. However, within months of its formation,the Coalition pursued the biggest reorganisation since […]
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The Coalition’s Last Stand
Jun 13th, 2014 by Grahame Morris.Dennis Skinner summed up the country’s mood when he declared the recent Queen’s speech to be the “Coalition’s last stand.” The Government set out their agenda for the next 12 months leading up to the general election. It was a missed opportunity, lacking the ideas, policy and ambition that is required to meet the challenges we face, […]
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US capitalist medicine in the UK? No thanks
Jun 4th, 2014 by Michael Meacher.As the Tories race to finish the privatisation and outsourcing of the NHS before the election, one critical aspect of this precipitate rush to turn Britain over to a US-type healthcare system has not been understood. What has brought it to notice is the recent report by a former head of the US Centres for […]
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Can the Tories hold out to 2015?
May 10th, 2014 by Michael Meacher.It is now touch and go on at least three accounts whether Tory plans can hold up till May 2015. In the NHS cuts are now forcing twice as many mental health patients to travel out of area as 2 years ago. GP surgeries are approaching crisis with millions left without a doctor. One in 5 […]
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The NHS is falling apart – why no cycle of demonstrations to fight back?
May 4th, 2014 by Michael Meacher.The NHS is going through a slow-motion breakdown. Today’s announcement that 3,000 children in the UK died before their first birthday in 2012, and that children in the UK are more likely to die before they reach their fifth birthday than in any other Western country except Malta, is a shocking statistic. And […]
