Private firms won’t offer the NHS value for money
Monday, June 6th, 2011An article in the Daily Telegraph today by Max Pemberton sheds more light on NHS privatisation (with hat tip to Sunny Hundal for drawing this
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The NHS - a stunningly cost effective supplier of high quality healthcare
Monday, June 6th, 2011Paul Krugman drew my attention to a US report on comparing the quality and cost effectiveness of healthcare systems in seven major countries. The report he referred
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The abc of Lansley's plan to run away from providing healthcare
Friday, June 3rd, 2011Andrew Lansley had a dire article in the Telegraph yesterday. Let me summarise it. He said: a) We want to cut gov’t spending. b) The
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Southern Cross is the model for the privatisation of the NHS
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011Southern Cross is not an aberration. Of course people will like to say it’s a bad apple, but it’s not. It is the model for the
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Let's not deny it: we really need the state, so let's celebrate and nourish it
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011Good stuff from Tim Horton, research director of the Fabians in the Guardian: There are huge challenges for the left in thinking about the future
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What if we get NHS reform without there ever being a Health and Social Care Reform Bill?
Friday, May 27th, 2011As the Guardian (and every other paper) notes, Nick Clegg has thrown a metaphorical hand grenade into the midst of the Coalition government, announcing, apparently
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Asking the impossible of GPs
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011One of the ways McKinsey has decided it’s possible to save £20 billion in the NHS is to reduce the number of acute admissions made
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Do the Tories have a clue about anything - including trains?
Thursday, May 19th, 2011Philip Hammond has made the most extraordinary range of comments in response to a report on the future of our railways according to the Guardian. As
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Make no mistake - the Tory plan is privatisation of the NHS - driven by KPMG
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011This blog from SpinWatch is so importsant it needs quoting at length: GPs won’t have to turn to the private sector’ to help with commissioning
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