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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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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Social housing and the sale of public land – a conflict of interest?
The Grenfell tower fire brought the issue of unused property into stark relief as the council failed to respond promptly to rehousing the affected tenants and residents of the tower …
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The CQC, social care and the road to privatisation
We are used to seeing catastrophic headlines and quotes about the NHS and social care, but it is never very clear exactly what is envisaged in the warnings. At what …
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Cuts Cost Lives
It is both a sobering thought and a salutary warning that on the day we were setting up our first blog a tower block in London went up in flames, …
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