Health Bill...so far
- 9 April 2013 14:18224569BMA/SMA, what's the odds? Rationing has begun...
Baby Formula Rationed In UK Over China Demand
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/baby-formula-rationed-uk-over-095636365.htmlIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - Keith Sansum1
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9 April 2013 22:00224619strange the chinese didnt trust there own milk or govtALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 11 April 2013 08:58224762Viewpoint: Thatcher began Cameron's bid to privatise the NHS
By Dr Kailash Chand, 09 April 2013
The Cameron/Lansley NHS reforms, to privatise the NHS, are the biggest in its history.
In terms of scale that may be true, but in terms of their direction of travel, that was set 25 years
ago by the NHS review announced by Margaret Thatcher in 1988.
She brought in the concept of the internal market and fundholding in the NHS. This was thanks
to the Griffiths report which suggested that the NHS should be run like a supermarket to
increase efficiency and effectiveness.
Instead of meeting patient needs, trusts would be run in competition with each other for
patients, undermining the very founding principles of the health service.
The central aim of the reforms was to produce a more cost-effective NHS.
The National Health Service and Community Act of 1990 was the proposed solution.
It reformed both management and patient care by introducing an 'internal market'.
Its big idea was the creation of a market within the NHS so that some parts of the organisation
would become providers selling their services to the others, the purchasers.
This separation of purchaser from provider - the purchaser/provider split - was the key feature.
The result was that the entire NHS started fragmenting, with each hospital in competition with
the others. Primary and secondary care were put in an adversarial position.
Under Margaret Thatcher, the government encouraged people to use private medical services
(The Health Service Act 1980 being the first step). Her government showed recurrent
interest in health insurance but this was played down for electoral reasons.
Tax concessions for private insurance were introduced, there were frequent rises
in prescription charges and the contracting out of support services to the private sector
was enforced.
Administration costs in the NHS in 1979 were around 6% - after the introduction of the
internal market these had doubled to 12%. - 11 April 2013 09:37224771NHS Death certificate was issued on 1st April.
The funeral & burial of NHS coffin will take place in Cameron's Witney constituency in July - Keith Sansum1
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11 April 2013 10:32224790Well i have been trying to say this all along reg
tories in there policies dont realy want the NHS
barryw is upfront enough to admit itALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 14 April 2013 10:37225203Doctors lead the fight to 'save the NHS'
Just as the Grand National ended, a cancer doctor completed a far more gruelling
35 mile ultra-marathon in which he ran from Leeds to Sheffield dressed as David Cameron
with his orange poodle Cleggy, to highlight the Tory and Lib Dem governments
dismantling of the NHS. Dr Clive Peedell, the consultant oncologist, who co-founded the
NHA Party last November following serious concerns about the Coalition Government's
NHS reforms, ran over 30 miles further than the Grand National horses to draw attention
to the introduction of Health & Social Care Act and the role of Nick Clegg and the Lib Dems
in allowing it to pass into law. Dr Peedell was also highlighting the need to oppose
controversial NHS regulations which force nearly every part of the NHS to be opened
up to compulsory competition. There is a crucial vote on this in the House of Lords on April 24th
. He ran 35 miles from the Department of Health in Leeds to Nick Cleggs Sheffield Hallam
constituency where he delivered an NHS death certificate - 15 April 2013 09:18225323Fingers in the PFI
Twenty years on from the introduction of the private finance initiative (PFI), Dexter Whitfield examines the effect it has had - and how it's set to get worse under new Tory plans
"...The volume of European infrastructure projects reaching financial close in the first half of 2012 was the lowest recorded in the past decade. The capital cost and number of signed contracts in the UK in 2012 is forecast to fall back to its 2009 level, a third of the pre-crisis rate.
Despite this decline, the Treasury still identified 39 UK PFI projects in schools, hospitals, highways and waste management with capital costs of £5.4 billion (and total costs of about £21.5 billion) in procurement at March 2012. And while new-build project deals have slowed down, speculative trading of shares in public‑private partnership (PPP) projects have mushroomed and offshore infrastructure funds had little problem raising equity for the activity. .."
"...In the health service, meanwhile, in early 2012, the government agreed to a £1.5 billion bailout to seven NHS trusts that had severe difficulties meeting their PFI commitments - paying off the private debt and interest used for new facilities. Twenty-two NHS trusts were reported to be confronting the same problems. .."
"...The coalition has refused point blank to stop profiteering, despite the PFI review recognising that windfall gains and excessive profits have occurred. The private sector will not be required to share profits on the sale of equity in more than 700 existing PFI projects. .."
"...Labour's lack of response
The silence of the Labour leadership over PF2 is deafening. New Labour's legacy of embedding PFI in the public sector is a heavy burden to bear, but it makes a principled response to PF2 more critical. Instead, Labour appears to have sought cover behind the timely launch of its own infrastructure review at the 2012 Labour conference, which is not due to report until September 2013. Headed by Sir John Armitt, previously chair of the Olympics Delivery Authority, Sir David Rowlands, chair of Gatwick Airport, and Rachel Lomax, former deputy governor of the Bank of England, the advisory panel also includes Lord Adonis, previously Tony Blair's head of the No 10 Policy Unit, promoter of academies and chair of Progress, the Labour Party pressure group, plus the chair of Barclays Infrastructure Funds Management and Engineering UK and the deputy chair of KPMG.
The Armitt review is designed to determine whether a new institutional structure should be established to improve long‑term infrastructure planning and to forge political consensus. Armitt already favours yet another quango, independent of the political process. 'Business as usual' recommendations appear inevitable. .."
http://www.redpepper.org.uk/fingers-in-the-pfi/Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - Keith Sansum1
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15 April 2013 18:15225403Well they cant all hide
time to stand up and be countedALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 15 April 2013 18:21225406John Armitt thrives on quangos.
Add vice Chairman of Airport Commission to the list.
Watty - 27 April 2013 09:10227207This highlights the need for ``step down beds`` for the new Dover `Hospital`
NHS 'ring fence' threatened by plan to help social care
More than £1bn likely to be transferred from health budget to local authorities
Ministers are to effectively abandon their pledge to ring-fence NHS spending by diverting
more than £1bn to cover the spiraling cost of social care,
The Government has decided to act amid fears that hospitals are admitting elderly patients
who could be better cared for at home.
The plans - being drawn up as part of the Government's spending review - are likely to see at
least £1bn transferred from the Department of Health to local authorities to keep people out of hospital. - 27 April 2013 09:14227208that reminds me.
- 27 April 2013 13:21227228.............and What if ?
Thousands in Spain protest health privatisation
Thousands of doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers, many wearing white lab coats,
and their supporters marched in Madrid Sunday to protest against government spending cuts
and plans to partly privatise medical services.
The demonstrators blew whistles and chanted "nothing for the private sector" as they marched
from leading hospitals in Madrid to the landmark Plaza de Sol square in the centre of the Spanish capital.
Police put the turnout at between 3,000 and 5,000 people. However the protest organisers gave an
estimate of 70,000 people.
It was the fifth "white tide" demonstration held this year in Madrid, named after the colour of the
medical scrubs worn by many of the protesters.
"We have to keep up the pressure, we can't let the government go ahead with its plans, it will not
lead to more efficient services, on the contrary, healthcare will get worse," said Abel Alvarez,
a 42-year-old X-ray technician at a Madrid hospital.
The conservative government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has slashed health spending by
seven billion euros ($9.1 billion) a year as part of a campaign to squeeze 150 billion euros out of the
crisis-hit country's budget by 2014. - 27 April 2013 13:40227235could be that "el ed" is the one to step in and stem the tide of privatisation in the u.k.?
- 27 April 2013 14:07227241The only hope we have...............but don`t hold your breath...................
- Brian Dixon
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27 April 2013 14:18227246now you have gone and upset barry,tough.
- 27 April 2013 15:09227251judging by the way ed is holding his index figure it seems like he is planning to help the doctors out with an invasive procedure.
- 27 April 2013 15:39227258Politicians have so many ways of persuading and influencing people it might just work.....they don`t like it..............
- 27 April 2013 15:42227259.......up 'em, Mr Mainwaring.I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
- Keith Sansum1
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27 April 2013 19:56227272Still longest we have to put up with this co olition is 2015ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - Brian Dixon
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27 April 2013 19:58227275don't tell them your name peter.
