How much of the NHS in England has already been privatised?
The question, ‘How much of the NHS has already been privatised?’ popped up in a Facebook group this week (it’s a frequently asked question). The answer that Deborah gave seems …
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Don’t pop the champagne yet: why leaked Downing Street proposals won’t ‘rein in’ the private sector in the NHS
There’s been some furore and debate created by a Guardian article on 25 September “NHS privatisation to be reined in under secret plan to reform care”, though it must be …
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We need to talk about ‘Integrated Care’ in the NHS
Integrated Care is the most recent re-naming of Accountable Care: the system currently being implemented in the NHS in England and which is derived from the US. This blog addresses …
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Dear Dr Williams, Primary Care Networks aren’t really nationalising GPs, are they?
On Wednesday 8 May The Guardian published an article by Dr Paul Williams MP ‘As a doctor, I say it’s time to nationalise GP surgeries’. As a patient, Public Matters’ …
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Corporate takeover of the NHS? Move on, no comment, nothing to see here.
This article, written by Public Matters’ Deborah Harrington and Jessica Ormerod, was first published on Friday 10 May in openDemocracy under the title ‘The latest multi-billion pound move in …
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A Cautionary Tale for our Times
‘Back to the Thirties’ by Charles Webster (previously Director, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford). First published in September 1984 in the public health journal Radical Community Medicine, this essay reflects many …
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Aneurin Bevan’s 1952 essay on the NHS – Chapter 5 of ‘In Place of Fear’
If you have never read Chapter 5 of Bevan’s set of essays written in 1952, In Place of Fear, you should. It is essential reading for two very important reasons: …
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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 …
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Privatisation from the top-down: the corporate sector and decision-making
Recent months have seen three debates in parliament about NHS privatisation. The first in Westminster Hall (23 April) the second and third in the Commons, on Subsidiary Companies (20 March) …
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