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NHS BILL 2021: Examining forthcoming proposals for ‘Integrated Care’

May 26, 2021 - by Jessica Ormerod - Leave a Comment

You can download the PDF here PREFACE This briefing is designed to provide to elected representatives at all levels a broader view of the changes that have taken place in …

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Accountable Care Organisations – their potential impact on delivery of health & social care to patients in England’s NHS

May 26, 2021May 26, 2021 - by Jessica Ormerod - Leave a Comment

You can download the Accountable Care Organisations Briefing here Contents Preface Introduction Key points Accountable Care The Five Year Forward View and Accountable Care Origins of Accountable Care Organisations (ACOs) …

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Blog / Health

How much of the NHS in England has already been privatised?

October 8, 2019April 28, 2021 - by Deborah Harrington - 5 Comments.

  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 …

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Democracy / Health

Don’t pop the champagne yet: why leaked Downing Street proposals won’t ‘rein in’ the private sector in the NHS

September 29, 2019September 30, 2019 - by Deborah Harrington - Leave a Comment

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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Blog / Health

We need to talk about ‘Integrated Care’ in the NHS

June 14, 2019January 30, 2021 - by Deborah Harrington - 5 Comments.

  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 …

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Blog / Health

Dear Dr Williams, Primary Care Networks aren’t really nationalising GPs, are they?

May 14, 2019 - by Jessica Ormerod - Leave a Comment

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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Health

Corporate takeover of the NHS? Move on, no comment, nothing to see here.

May 13, 2019 - by Deborah Harrington - 1 Comment

  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

February 8, 2019February 8, 2019 - by Jessica Ormerod - Leave a Comment

‘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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Democracy / Health / Resources

Aneurin Bevan’s 1952 essay on the NHS – Chapter 5 of ‘In Place of Fear’

February 5, 2019February 6, 2019 - by Deborah Harrington - 3 Comments.

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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Economy / Health

Brand NHS – Your Global Healthcare Provider

September 29, 2018February 5, 2019 - by Jessica Ormerod - Leave a Comment

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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