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There have been a growing number of reports of cash-strapped hospital trusts announcing plans to develop private companies to employ non-clinical staff. Trusts are enthusiastic about this approach as a way to save money and reduce deficits. There are two ways money can be saved: through the VAT system - a private company working for … Continue reading Back-door Privatisation: the rise of the spin-off company in the NHS
Support staff at the three hospitals in Wigan borough are on strike this Wednesday and this Thursday, and we're urging all supporters to visit their picket lines whenever you can during that time. The strike is against the transfer of hundreds of staff to a "subsidiary company" which can attack their terms & conditions of … Continue reading NHS Strikes in Wigan
We are giving full support to a strike by hundreds of staff at the Wigan-based hospitals Wigan, Wrightington, and Leigh, on Weds 23 and Thurs 24 May. The strike is against the NHS trust outsourcing the staff to a subsidiary company called “WWL Solutions” which will be a private company owned by the NHS Trust, … Continue reading Wigan NHS strike 23-24 May
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Community Send Message The Judge who heard our Judicial Review of NHS England’s Accountable Care Organisation contract in Leeds High Court on 24th April is due to announce his decision tomorrow morning (Tuesday 15th MAY) at 10am in Court 45, Civil and Family Justice Centre, Manchester Apologies for such short notice - the court only … Continue reading 999 Call for the NHS Judicial Review Decision. Manchester 10.am Tue 15th May
Sat 28 April - 7.30pm Birch Community Centre Brighton Grove, Rusholme, Manchester, M14 5JT. Happy 70th birthday NHS! All is not well at St Monica’s Hospital. They’re on life support, facing bugs, bed-blockers and a battle to save A and E. 70 years ago, Nye Bevan gave us free healthcare for all. Can his dream … Continue reading Get Well Soon – comes to Manchester
CAROLINE MOLLOY 26 February 2018 Hospitals from Yorkshire to Yeovil are rushing to set up secretive private companies in which to transfer NHS staff and assets. OurNHS looks in depth at the possible impacts – and whether it’s likely to go horribly wrong. Image: NHS demonstration. PA Images/Victoria Jones. Dozens of NHS hospital trusts across … Continue reading Are cash-strapped hospitals walking into a trap that could cost the NHS its family silver?
It is only five years since Andrew Lansley forced through the biggest change in the NHS in a generation. “So big it can be seen from space” declared David Nicholson - its CEO at the time. Competition, patient choice and GP-led commissioning were all central themes. This was stepping up the NHS market experiment which was first started by legislation in 1989. The current CEO of the NHS, Simon Stevens has set a new direction, initially laid out in his Five Year Forward View and now being implemented across the country in the form of new models of care. He has declared that the current market structure in the NHS - which gives separate roles to purchasers and providers is on the way out, to be replaced by integration and joint planning.
https://www.hsj.co.uk/service-design/exclusive-second-aco-contract-delayed-amid-fears-of-unrealistic-deadlines/7021533.article?sm=7021533 By Rebecca Thomas The LCO will still “go live” but providers will deliver services through existing contracts Documents leaked to HSJreveal concerns over “unrealistic deadlines” throughout the process Commissioners in Manchester will delay the launch of a new accountable care contract amid concerns over “unrealistic deadlines”, HSJ has learned. Manchester Health and Care Commissioning – a partnership created … Continue reading Manchester CCG and council delay plans to award a £6bn “local care organisation” contract by April
Simon Stevens has decided that remarketing accountable care systems as integrated care systems will be slightly less frightening - see below. Only the name has been changed, to protect the guilty. Clearly we need to decide what to call them. My starter for 10 is Disintegrated Care Systems - or you may wish to choose … Continue reading A thorn by any other name….
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By Lawrence Dunhill, 23 January 2018 Unison has issued an indicative ballot asking staff if they are prepared to take industrial action. Staff concerns present further difficulties for a project which has already been scaled back from initial plans. Questions raised about projected reductions in hospital activity, as well as the involvement of the former … Continue reading NHS STOCKPORT CCG High profile vanguard faces threat of industrial action
Details of protests: Wigan: Friday 19 January, Wigan town hall (time TBC) Trafford: Tuesday, 23rd January 6.30 pm, Trafford Town Hall, Talbot Road Stretford M32 0TH Manchester: Tuesday 30 January, 10am Manchester town hall All around Greater Manchester a series of demonstrations demanding action to fix the NHS crisis are now being planned. Lobbies outside … Continue reading NHS Crisis Protests – Wigan/Trafford/Manchester
Caroline Bedale At a recent Socialist Health Association (SHA) meeting in Manchester (16th December 2017), Richard Bourne outlined ideas for the future of the NHS, based on the idea that we are now entering the Third Era for the NHS (the First Era being Bevanite bureaucracy and the Welfare State, and the Second Era … Continue reading Public, Private, Voluntary, Charity – how should NHS services be provided?
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