Brand NHS – Your Global Healthcare Provider
The Telegraph recently published an article: ‘NHS to be franchised around the globe under post-Brexit plans’. Here we re-publish an updated version of the article we wrote on this subject …
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Legislation, privatisation and the NHS
Privatisation has been the economic policy of successive governments since the 1970s. All the major infrastructure, utilities and manufacturing industries which had been brought into public ownership in the immediate …
Read MoreThe NHS doesn’t require reform – it needs a revolution
In exactly one month’s time there will be a 10 Minute Rule Bill presented in Parliament by Eleanor Smith MP to Reinstate the NHS as a publicly provided, accountable and …
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Privatisation from the ground up: property sales and rich NHS Trusts
On 18 May 2018, in its property section, the Guardian ran an article entitled ‘NHS privately planning to develop Royal Free nurses’ home into luxury flats.’ A week earlier …
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The Big Privatisation Debate
This afternoon in parliament in Westminster Hall there will be a debate on privatisation in the NHS. This debate has been granted in response to a petition to government. …
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Jeremy Hunt calls for increase in tax to pay for Trident….
‘Where to find the money to pay for the NHS’ is a recurrent theme of successive governments. As if changes to our public services are simply a matter of practicality …
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The Increasingly Deadly NHS Forward View
The difference between the public pronouncements of politicians and Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) leaders on the NHS and the dreadful circumstances on the ground could not have been more …
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Will the written evidence to the Health Select Committee bring about the end of the Sustainability and Transformation Plans?
The NHS’ Sustainability and Transformation process has surely hit the buffers. Last week three separate events each raised serious and considerable doubts about the viability of continuing the project. The …
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Rhetoric v. Reality – Can the new models of maternity care deliver a safe service?
Every child who is still born is a personal tragedy for the family. Sharon Hodgson’s moving personal story in the House of Commons this week is testimony to the tragedy. …
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A maths problem to solve: 44 x ACO does not = 1 x NHS
What’s all the fuss about STPs and the ACOs that are being introduced? Isn’t this just another one of the NHS’ endless re-dis-organisations? Is it important how the NHS is …
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