Terrifyingly, according to the World Health Organisation definition the UK no longer has a NHS

The NHS Reinstatement Bill may be the final hope we have of getting our NHS back


Well it might have done but they have just fillibustered it!!!!!



The NHS has actually been abolished.

Now you may think that this is untrue. After all, you still go and see your GP or may be admitted to hospital and receive care free at the point of delivery. However, the Health & Social Care Act 2012 has abolished the NHS in legislative terms. It has achieved this through several mechanisms.

It has axed the government's responsibility for the NHS. It has devolved responsibility to Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs). The CCGs have no legal obligation to provide you with anything beyond emergency care - this may not be the case at present but it means that there is no legal guarantee that they will continue to do so.

It has opened up the NHS to unlimited privatisation. The government continues to deny that privatisation is taking place - of course they do. A simple rebuffal comes from the World Health Organisation definition of healthcare privatisation, which describes it as the increasing financing and/or provision of healthcare by non-governmental actors. And the NHS Support Federation has shown that £30 billion of NHS contracts have been tendered since the Act came into effect. £16 billion have been awarded with 34 per cent going to the private sector.

The introduction of market forces increases cost, reduces efficiency and increases iniquitous provision of healthcare. We know this from extensive data across many countries. This is because privatisation seeks to make profits, pays out dividends to shareholders and creates layers of bureaucracy administered by tiers of staff and managers through market mechanisms such as billing, tendering and contracting. The simple truth is that public healthcare systems are the most cost efficient.


The Private Finance Initiative (PFI) was touted as the largest hospital building programme in the history of the NHS. The outcome has been that PFI hospitals with an original cost of around £11.5 billion will actually cost up to £80 billion with the difference going to private consortia. Across all infrastructure, PFI will end up costing an extra £250 billion.
It is worth bearing this in mind the next time you hear about A&E in crisis or another beleaguered hospital. And when you hear a minister or policy wonk pontificating about the NHS crisis remember that the solution is not more privatisation. We all stand to lose from the introduction of charging and universal private health insurance.

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/terrifyingly-according-to-the-world-health-organisation-definition-the-uk-no-longer-has-a-nhs-a6923126.html






The NHS Reinstatement Bill, written by Professor Allyson Pollock and Peter Roderick and sponsored by Caroline Lucas MP might have saved it, but today the scumbags of the Tory Party, who have fingers in the pies of the private healthcare companies, have talked it out.

They utterly disgust me. 

Well sassy....heres a chance for your hero to prove his metle.....

why doesnt he just come out and say what neds to be said.....


If labour win the next election the NHS in TOTO will be renationalised without compensation.

thats whats needed..plus the will to actually do it....

He's already said it.

sassy wrote:He's already said it.

really....


without compensation....?????????

n March, Mr Corbyn said the health service should be “completely publicly run” and supported a bill that sought to reverse “marketisation” in the NHS.

He said: “It’s our NHS. Let’s not just protect it from being further destroyed but let’s take it back and ensure it’s completely publicly run and publicly accountable. Healthcare is a human right, not a privilege.”

- See more at: https://www.politicshome.com/party-politics/articles/story/heidi-alexander-and-corbyn-offer-opposing-messages-over-nhs#sthash.8kn65Vq5.dpuf

ahh...so no mention of "without compensation" then