Posted on October 26, 2009. Filed under: News stories, Press/News Releases | Tags: APMS, Marketisation, Privatisation |
Pulse | By Gareth Iacobucci | 26 October 2009 The NHS Alliance is urging the Government to slam the brakes on privatisation of NHS services by adopting new rules on APMS tendering. Under its proposals PCTs would be barred from approaching independent providers unless they could satisfy detailed criteria that existing NHS services were not meeting [...]
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Posted on October 7, 2009. Filed under: GP-led health centres, News stories, Polyclinics, Providers | Tags: Alliance Boots, Ashley House, Assura, Atos Consulting, Care UK, General Healthcare Group, HCA International, Marketisation, Nuffield Hospitals, Privatisation, PWC, UBS |
Pulse | By Steve Nowottny | 7 October 2009 Exclusive: The NHS secretly courted private companies at a series of high-level meetings to encourage them to compete for the new wave of polyclinics and GP-led health centres, Pulse can reveal. Directors, chief executives and other senior figures from a who’s who of private health providers were [...]
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Posted on September 17, 2009. Filed under: Journals | Tags: Marketisation |
Health Service Journal | By Chris Ham | 17 September 2009 Tighter budgets and more integrated care mean the co-operation and competition panel must change tack away from its old policy of relying on competitive markets. Policy makers, like generals, are always at risk of fighting the last war. So it is with the health [...]
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Posted on September 15, 2009. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Marketisation, Privatisation |
Healthcare Republic | By Neil Durham | 15 September 2009 Government-supported privatisation initiatives are the ‘Trojan horse’ that could severely undermine the NHS, according to Unite/CPHVA. The union backed motions at yesterday’s Trade Unions Congress in Liverpool yesterday calling for an end to the privatisation of the NHS, urging services to remain within the NHS [...]
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Posted on September 3, 2009. Filed under: ISTC, News stories | Tags: Marketisation, PFI |
Guardian | Comment is free | By Allyson Pollock | 3 September 2009 Downsizing the workforce is a business response to loss of profit – but it doesn’t account for the NHS goal of universal healthcare The core goal of universal healthcare and services planned on the basis of need and not ability to pay [...]
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Posted on July 17, 2009. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Marketisation |
Healthcare Republic | 17 July 2009 Patients should be charged £20 for a GP appointment to encourage healthier, wealthier people to avoid using the NHS, according to independent think tank the Social Market Foundation. It says that anyone receiving tax credits should be totally exempt from these charges and from prescription fees, covering the poorest [...]
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Posted on July 16, 2009. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Marketisation, Privatisation |
Healthcare Republic | 16 July 2009 The public’s view on NHS privatisation differs depending on their age, according to a poll of over 1,000 people commissioned by the independent Social Market Foundation think tank. It found that younger people viewed privatisation as a possibility but not necessarily as a negative. Older people were concerned by [...]
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Posted on June 29, 2009. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Marketisation |
Healthcare Republic | 29 June 2009 The DoH must put an end to wasteful commercialisation of the NHS to protect resources as public funding cuts loom, the BMA chairman has said. Dr Hamish Meldrum told the BMA’s annual representative meeting, which began in Liverpool today, that ministers should not shy away from u-turns on policies [...]
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Posted on June 11, 2009. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Marketisation, Privatisation |
Healthcare Republic | 11 June 09 Health minister Ann Keen has reassured union Unison/CPHVA that NHS provision remains the preferred option if it offers the most value for patients. She added that there would be no automatic default to outsourcing in a ministerial statement. Mick Jackson, Unison’s senior national officer for health, said: ‘We are [...]
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Posted on June 10, 2009. Filed under: Press/News Releases | Tags: Marketisation, Privatisation, Provider-commissioner |
Unite | 2 June 2009 Unite is launching a campaign against the latest ‘patchwork privatisation’ of the NHS entitled Transforming Community Services (TCS). TCS requires every primary care trust (PCT) in England to draw up plans by October this year to establish ‘provider’ organisations separate from their current commissioner roles. Writing in the June edition [...]
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Posted on June 2, 2009. Filed under: Journals | Tags: Marketisation, Privatisation, Provider-commissioner |
Health Service Journal | Helen Crump | 2 June 2009 Trade union Unite has launched a campaign against Department of Health plans to separate primary care trust provider arms from commissioning PCTs. Unite said the transforming community services programme amounted to “the latest patchwork privatisation of the NHS” and “promotes the myth that any provider [...]
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Posted on June 2, 2009. Filed under: News stories | Tags: Marketisation |
Healthcare Republic | 2 June 2009 The BMA has launched an NHS anti-marketisation campaign called Look After Our NHS. BMA chairman Dr Hamish Meldrum said: ‘A market economy is based on winners and losers. We’re not prepared to allow parts of the NHS to fail. ‘We want to get rid of the market in healthcare [...]
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