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Shareholders in the company Circle Health – the first private firm to take over an NHS hospital – have given the Conservatives over £1.4m
Shareholders in the company Circle Health – the first private firm to take over an NHS hospital – have given the Conservatives over £1.4m
GSTS Pathology, a venture between Serco and King’s College and St Thomas’ hospitals, described itself as "an exemplar of public private partnership in the health sector". Photograph: Frank Baron for the Guardian
Serco takeover of NHS pathology labs 'led to clinical and financial failures'
Serco takeover of NHS pathology labs 'led to clinical and financial failures'
Joint venture between King's College and St Thomas' hospitals and Serco dogged by computer faults
Joint venture between King's College and St Thomas' hospitals and Serco dogged by computer faults
Randeep Ramesh, social affairs editor
£1m carve-up: Tories rake in donations from fatcats hoping to cash in on NHS privatisation
£1m carve-up: Tories rake in donations from fatcats hoping to cash in on NHS privatisation
NHS BECOMING HEALTHCARE SUPERMARKET
Morrisons supermarkets developing plans for in-store GP surgeries
Sainsbury’s opens two more in-store GP surgeries
By Madlen Davies | 27 Jul 2012
Supermarket surgeries give GPs a new way to reach patients
ConDems Plans For The NHS
Drug companies to work with CCGs on care pathways and case
finding under DH-backed scheme | 28 May 2012
ConDem Gov Transparent
Government to scrap patient website to access electronic
records
28 May 2012
Final list of CCGs published in ‘landmark moment’ for GP
commissioning 24 May 2012
GPs raise 'serious concerns' over NHS 111 roll-out 23 May 2012
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e-petition: This e-petition is now closed; 16/05/2012 09:56
e-petition: This e-petition is now closed; 16/05/2012 09:56
Number of signatures: 179,426; Created by: Dr Kailash Chand OBE
Number of signatures: 179,426; Created by: Dr Kailash Chand OBE
“Drop the Health Bill” Responsible department: Department of Health
“Drop the Health Bill” Responsible department: Department of Health
“Calls on the Government to drop its Health and Social Care Bill.”
“Calls on the Government to drop its Health and Social Care Bill.”
This e-petition has received the following response:
This e-petition has received the following response:
The Bill has now received the Royal assent, after 50 days of detailed parliamentary scrutiny in both Houses of Parliament.
The Bill has now received the Royal assent, after 50 days of detailed parliamentary scrutiny in both Houses of Parliament.
It becomes the Health and Social Care Act (2012)
It becomes the Health and Social Care Act (2012)
NHS Nightmare
Lansley warns BMA industrial action threat will win ‘no concessions’ on pensions
PULSE;19 Jan 2012
BMA rejects pensions deal and draws up plans for industrial action
PULSE; 18 Jan 2012
BMA sent out a questionnaire and briefing material from 5 January to 129,714 members in active practice in the UK. The survey officially closed at midnight on 16 January. Since the launch, we have received in total 46,300 responses.
Video: BMA pensions rally
‘We are entering unknown territory’
Pulse reporter Andy McNicoll looks at the strength of the opposition to theGovernment's planned pensions reforms at a recent BMA rally.
Tories & Lib Dems Government Cunning Plan To ConDem NHS To Oblivion
CALLING ALL GP’s
CALLING ALL GP’s
Saturday, 21st January 2012
Website set up to allow doctors to lobby their Medical Royal Colleges about the Health and Social Care Bill currently in the House of Lords.
In only a few weeks time this Health Bill could become law.
Your <GP's> input is urgently needed.
The Bill
- Poses an enormous risk to the future of a viable equitable NHS.
- Allows the elected Secretary of State to abdicate his or her ultimate responsibility for the NHS.
- Allows local hospitals to earn up to 49% of their income from private patients meaning NHS patients will wait longer for their care.
- Will tranform a cost effective public service into a healthcare market.
- Has no democratic mandate.
We were promised 'no top down re-organisation of the NHS' prior to the election yet we now see this enormously damaging NHS upheaval before us which is already proving a huge distraction to all NHS workers.
Continuing with the implementation of the Bill carries far more risk than stopping it now and withdrawing it.
£ Land Grab £
Flogging off NHS Land To Highest Bidder
<ie Tory Friends in High Places>
ACCELERATING THE RELEASE OF PUBLIC SECTOR LAND FOR DEVELOPMENT
12th January 2012; All NHS Chief Executives
3 Reasons to Say NO to ConDem Government's NHS Wrecking Bill
3 Reasons to Say NO to ConDem Government's NHS Wrecking Bill
1: PRIVATISATION
Our £'s wasted on private profit and decisions made by management consultants
2: WORSE PATIENT CARE
Postcode lotteries, hospitals closing, fewer treatments and longer waiting times
3: MORE RED TAPE:
Costs to the NHS and taxpayers up as hospitals are tied up in bureaucracy
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
‘KILL THE HEALTH BILL’ say ‘Bevan’s Run’ consultants
160 miles in 6 days from Aneurin Bevan's Statue in Cardiff to the Department of Health, Richmond House, Whitehall, London. To protest against the Health and Social Care Bill and NHS privatisation. Calling at Witney (David Cameron's constituency).
Clive Peedell (on right of photo), a consultant oncologist and leading opponent of the government’s Health and Social Care Bill, set off on Tuesday 10 January to run from Cardiff to London to protest about the forthcoming changes to the NHS.
Dr Peedell, who is co-chairman of the NHS Consultants’ Association and on the council of the BMA, started his run at Cardiff’s statue of Aneurin Bevan, who founded the NHS in 1948. He was inspired by Bevan’s comment that there would always be an NHS “as long as there are folk left with the faith to fight for it.”
Dr Peedell said, “I certainly have that faith, and that is why I have decided to run from Bevan’s statue in Cardiff city centre to the Department of Health, Richmond House, London.”
He began the 160 mile (260 km) run with Stefan Coghlan (left), chairman of the Welsh council of the BMA, and is being accompanied on the entire run by his colleague David Wilson (middle), a consultant clinical oncologist in Middlesbrough. The run is expected to finish on Sunday 15 January. They will run about 26 miles a day.
January 10-15th, 2012
2011
Co-Chair Keep Our NHS Public
Wendy Savage is an inspirational leader in women’s health. As an obstetrician and gynaecologist, a campaigner, and an academic, she has a lifetime of contributions and achievements in women centred care and continues to be a champion of women’s rights in childbirth and fertility.
Wendy Savage, 17 June 2011
Despite the deluge of coverage in England about the fate if its National Health Service there is a lack of alertness from journalists and opposition MPs about what is actually being proposed, changed or staying the same. Professor Wendy Savage exposes deceit in the government’s revisions to the Health and Social Care Bill.
Wendy Savage, 19 May 2011
Professor Wendy Savage argues that the pause in the passage of the Health and Social Care Bill, which claims to reform the NHS, is just a cynical PR exercise — but citizens should exploit it and act now to save the NHS.
Wendy Savage, 4 October 2011
Professor Savage drafted the 'Good Medical Practice' guidelines.
Here, she argues that the Coalition's health reforms will prevent doctors in England from fulfilling their duties to their patients.
Profile
Professor Allyson Pollock is assistant principal for International Health Policy and director of the Centre for International Public Health Policy at Edinburgh University.
Health & Social Care Bill 2011 House of Lords
report stage
17th January 2012
Allyson Pollock, Professor of Public Health Research and Policy at Queen Mary University of London
David Price, Senior Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London
Peter Roderick, public interest lawyer
Tim Treuherz, formerly Head of Legal for Vale of White Horse District Council
The Lords may yet succeed in rewriting the health and social care bill, but they must truly understand the stakes.
The Lords may yet succeed in rewriting the health and social care bill, but they must truly understand the stakes.
NHS NEWS COURTESY CHANNEL 4
NHS NEWS COURTESY CHANNEL 4
UK Caesareans to be allowed on request
23 November 2011 Channel 4 News
New guidelines by a health watchdog says women should be allowed to have their baby by caesarean section, even if they have no medical or mental health reason for wanting the operation.
UK Revealed: growing crisis in UK home care sector 22 November 2011 Victoria Macdonald
Nearly half a million older people receive care in their own homes paid for by the local authority. But Channel 4 News has seen evidence the system is struggling to cope.
UK'Proof' government plans to privatise NHS?
21 November 2011 Victoria Macdonald
Exclusive: GPs say they have firm evidence now that the government is planning to privatise the National Health Service as part of its reforms.
UKNHS nears 'crisis point' as job losses double
20 November 2011 Channel 4 News
A report from the Royal College of Nursing warning of a staffing crisis at the NHS is dismissed by health secretary Andrew Lansley as "scaremongering".
UKGovernment to crack down on 'hidden' waiting lists 17 November 2011 Channel 4 News
The government is launching a crackdown on extended NHS waiting lists of more than 18 weeks.
UKPatients 'still at risk' at lax hospitals
27 October 2011 Channel 4 News
Patients remain at risk of poor care at two hospitals operated by Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust, a report warns - following a Channel 4 News investigation.
UK NHS reform 'could hit children with complex needs'26 October 2011 Channel 4 News
Three hundred paediatricians and child care workers call on the government to rethink its plans to change the way NHS services are funded in England, as Victoria Macdonald reports.
One in five hospitals failing elderly patients
13 October 2011 Channel 4 News
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