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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Privatisation from the ground up: property sales and rich NHS Trusts
On 18 May, 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 the …
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The Myths and Legends of Hypothecated National Insurance
There are pressing reasons for understanding a bit about how our tax system works and very specifically what National Insurance is. NI is used as successive governments’ tax increase of …
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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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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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Making a Virtue of variation? STPs and the fragmentation of the English NHS.
England’s 44 Sustainability & Transformation footprints Reprinted, unedited, with kind permission of the author, this blog was originally published on the Cost of Living website and was written by Adrian …
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