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 …
Read MoreYou 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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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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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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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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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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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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‘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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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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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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