NHS sell-out: Tories sign largest privatisation deal in history worth £780MILLION
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NHS sell-out: Tories sign largest privatisation deal in history worth £780MILLION
The sales to a total of 11 private firms, some with dubious records, are intended to help hospitals tackle the backlog of patients waiting for surgery and tests
Jeremy Hunt’s claims that the NHS is not for sale lay in tatters last night after he signed the largest privatisation deal in history.
The Health Secretary, who has repeatedly denied health services are being siphoned off to private firms under this Government, faced furious reactions as the £780million deal was revealed.
The sales to a total of 11 private firms, some with dubious records, are intended to help hospitals tackle the backlog of patients waiting for surgery and tests.
Heart, joint and a variety of operations will be carried out, as well as scans, X-rays and other diagnostic tests. Under the deal struck by the NHS Supply Chain, many services will be provided in mobile units, rather than hospitals
Controversy: The 11 profit-driven firms have previously been slammed for poor quality of care
The news was met by anger, not least because three of the 11 profit-driven firms have previously been slammed for providing poor quality of care.
Vanguard faces legal action over a series of eye operations carried out in 2014 at Musgrove Park Hospital in Somerset. The hospital terminated its contract with Vanguard after just four days as a result of problems.
Circle – which pulled out of running Hinchingbrooke hospital in Cambridgeshire – is in line to share up to £240million for providing imaging services, such as scans and X-rays. It will also provide services within operating theatres.
And Care UK was previously slammed by the CQC for the quality of care at two nursing homes it runs in Suffolk.
Doctors, anti-privatisation campaigners and unions today said they were outraged by the scale of the contract handed to the private firms.
And they warned the move would be “detrimental” to patient care.
Barrie Brown, national officer for health at union Unite, said: “This is further evidence of the helter-skelter rush to privatise the NHS.
“Great swathes of the NHS are being gobbled up by these 11 private companies, hungry for profit. It will further fragment services and be detrimental to patient care.”
Unison head of health, Christina McAnea, added: “There wouldn’t be such a crisis and backlog if ministers had properly invested in the NHS. Instead they’ve starved it of funds and demoralised staff.
“This is a desperate and dangerous attempt by the government to fix its succession of mistakes, and is also a huge betrayal of public trust.
"More worryingly, we now have companies with terrible track records being given money to provide essential services.”
Prof Sue Richards, chair of campaign group Keep Our NHS Public, also said she was angry the contract had been awarded to firms “demonstrated to provide sub-standard care”.
She added: “We have warned against creeping privatisation, but now the pace is quickening to a gallop.
"This case clearly demonstrates the Government is putting its own ideological commitment to the market and to the vested interests of the private health care industry ahead of patients’ needs.
“No wonder the future of the NHS is the top issue in the election.”
Cash boost: 11 firms stand to pocket up to £780million
The 11 firms stand to pocket up to £780million between now and December 2018.
It beats the previous record NHS privatisation deal, which led to Virgin Care winning a £500million contract to provide community services in Surrey until 2017.
The NHS Business Services Authority, which oversees NHS Supply Chain, said the deal broke down to five contracts with maximum values of £240million, £160million, £240million, £80million and £60million, adding up to £780million.
A NHSBSA spokesman said: “This was introduced to provide a central point from which mobile and strategic clinical services could be procured efficiently.
“NHS organisations can choose to utilise this route to market if needed saving time and resources, by not having to undertake formal public procurement locally.”
But Dr Clive Peedell, a cancer doctor and co-leader of the National Health Action party, which launched its general election campaign today, said: “This government has spent the past four and half years starving the NHS of cash.
Under fire: Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt
“Now it’s putting nearly £800million into the pockets of private companies to try and clear a backlog of its own making.
“And it has picked some of the very firms who have been criticised for poor patient care. How much clearer could it be this government is so wedded to privatisation, that it is willing to risk patient care?”
A Department of Health spokesman said: “It’s nonsense to suggest this contract means significant outsourcing of clinical services. Use of the private sector in the NHS is only 6% of the total NHS budget, an increase of just 1.7% since May 2010.
“Charities, social enterprises and other providers continue to play an important role for the NHS as they have done for years and the NHS should hold providers to account if they do not meet the high standards of care patients expect.”
But the Department of Health declined to comment on the three criticised firms winning fresh contracts.
Mirror health editor Andrew Gregory has his say:
It is impossible to deny. Privatisation of the NHS is now in full swing.
The Government has forced £20billion of cuts on the health service during this parliament. And the impact has been huge.
Thousands of staff have been axed – or quit and not been replaced. Dozens of NHS walk-in centres, A&Es and maternity units have been shut or downgraded.
Starving it of funds means patients wait longer to see a GP, have vital tests or undergo operations.
The Government’s solution? Spend hundreds of millions of pounds hiring private firms to clear the backlog its cuts helped create in the first place. The danger is it stops being a national health service and becomes a private one.
And when firms discover they cannot profit they cut corners, make mistakes and then walk away.
Critics even say that cutting NHS funding was a deliberate ploy – that by running down the service that has served millions well since 1948 you might soften up the nation’s appetite for change.
And that it might make introducing private firms to deliver NHS care easier to accept by sceptical members of the public.
What is clear now, however, is that the NHS is in desperate need of a major cash injection – not private firms.
All the main political parties have pledged to boost its funding if they are elected in May.
They are promising it for the simple reason that if they don’t, the NHS will cease to exist.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nhs-sell-out-tories-sign-largest-5323402
Clear as daylight. If you use the NHS, value the NHS, are worried about the NHS, don't under any circumstance vote Conservative, because all they want is their mates to make a fortune out of it.
Jeremy Hunt’s claims that the NHS is not for sale lay in tatters last night after he signed the largest privatisation deal in history.
The Health Secretary, who has repeatedly denied health services are being siphoned off to private firms under this Government, faced furious reactions as the £780million deal was revealed.
The sales to a total of 11 private firms, some with dubious records, are intended to help hospitals tackle the backlog of patients waiting for surgery and tests.
Heart, joint and a variety of operations will be carried out, as well as scans, X-rays and other diagnostic tests. Under the deal struck by the NHS Supply Chain, many services will be provided in mobile units, rather than hospitals
Controversy: The 11 profit-driven firms have previously been slammed for poor quality of care
The news was met by anger, not least because three of the 11 profit-driven firms have previously been slammed for providing poor quality of care.
Vanguard faces legal action over a series of eye operations carried out in 2014 at Musgrove Park Hospital in Somerset. The hospital terminated its contract with Vanguard after just four days as a result of problems.
Circle – which pulled out of running Hinchingbrooke hospital in Cambridgeshire – is in line to share up to £240million for providing imaging services, such as scans and X-rays. It will also provide services within operating theatres.
And Care UK was previously slammed by the CQC for the quality of care at two nursing homes it runs in Suffolk.
Doctors, anti-privatisation campaigners and unions today said they were outraged by the scale of the contract handed to the private firms.
And they warned the move would be “detrimental” to patient care.
Barrie Brown, national officer for health at union Unite, said: “This is further evidence of the helter-skelter rush to privatise the NHS.
“Great swathes of the NHS are being gobbled up by these 11 private companies, hungry for profit. It will further fragment services and be detrimental to patient care.”
Unison head of health, Christina McAnea, added: “There wouldn’t be such a crisis and backlog if ministers had properly invested in the NHS. Instead they’ve starved it of funds and demoralised staff.
“This is a desperate and dangerous attempt by the government to fix its succession of mistakes, and is also a huge betrayal of public trust.
"More worryingly, we now have companies with terrible track records being given money to provide essential services.”
Prof Sue Richards, chair of campaign group Keep Our NHS Public, also said she was angry the contract had been awarded to firms “demonstrated to provide sub-standard care”.
She added: “We have warned against creeping privatisation, but now the pace is quickening to a gallop.
"This case clearly demonstrates the Government is putting its own ideological commitment to the market and to the vested interests of the private health care industry ahead of patients’ needs.
“No wonder the future of the NHS is the top issue in the election.”
Cash boost: 11 firms stand to pocket up to £780million
The 11 firms stand to pocket up to £780million between now and December 2018.
It beats the previous record NHS privatisation deal, which led to Virgin Care winning a £500million contract to provide community services in Surrey until 2017.
The NHS Business Services Authority, which oversees NHS Supply Chain, said the deal broke down to five contracts with maximum values of £240million, £160million, £240million, £80million and £60million, adding up to £780million.
A NHSBSA spokesman said: “This was introduced to provide a central point from which mobile and strategic clinical services could be procured efficiently.
“NHS organisations can choose to utilise this route to market if needed saving time and resources, by not having to undertake formal public procurement locally.”
But Dr Clive Peedell, a cancer doctor and co-leader of the National Health Action party, which launched its general election campaign today, said: “This government has spent the past four and half years starving the NHS of cash.
Under fire: Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt
“Now it’s putting nearly £800million into the pockets of private companies to try and clear a backlog of its own making.
“And it has picked some of the very firms who have been criticised for poor patient care. How much clearer could it be this government is so wedded to privatisation, that it is willing to risk patient care?”
A Department of Health spokesman said: “It’s nonsense to suggest this contract means significant outsourcing of clinical services. Use of the private sector in the NHS is only 6% of the total NHS budget, an increase of just 1.7% since May 2010.
“Charities, social enterprises and other providers continue to play an important role for the NHS as they have done for years and the NHS should hold providers to account if they do not meet the high standards of care patients expect.”
But the Department of Health declined to comment on the three criticised firms winning fresh contracts.
Mirror health editor Andrew Gregory has his say:
It is impossible to deny. Privatisation of the NHS is now in full swing.
The Government has forced £20billion of cuts on the health service during this parliament. And the impact has been huge.
Thousands of staff have been axed – or quit and not been replaced. Dozens of NHS walk-in centres, A&Es and maternity units have been shut or downgraded.
Starving it of funds means patients wait longer to see a GP, have vital tests or undergo operations.
The Government’s solution? Spend hundreds of millions of pounds hiring private firms to clear the backlog its cuts helped create in the first place. The danger is it stops being a national health service and becomes a private one.
And when firms discover they cannot profit they cut corners, make mistakes and then walk away.
Critics even say that cutting NHS funding was a deliberate ploy – that by running down the service that has served millions well since 1948 you might soften up the nation’s appetite for change.
And that it might make introducing private firms to deliver NHS care easier to accept by sceptical members of the public.
What is clear now, however, is that the NHS is in desperate need of a major cash injection – not private firms.
All the main political parties have pledged to boost its funding if they are elected in May.
They are promising it for the simple reason that if they don’t, the NHS will cease to exist.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nhs-sell-out-tories-sign-largest-5323402
Clear as daylight. If you use the NHS, value the NHS, are worried about the NHS, don't under any circumstance vote Conservative, because all they want is their mates to make a fortune out of it.
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Re: NHS sell-out: Tories sign largest privatisation deal in history worth £780MILLION
Hands up! How many people use the NHS and think it is important, me for one!
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What a bunch of chancers this lot are. They were never elected on anything like that and all this money being spent is part of the claim that the Tories are increasing? spending on the NHS. That's where a whole lump of is going - privatisation not into the NHS as people understand it.
No top down reorganisation - liars.
No top down reorganisation - liars.
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Andy Burnham:
David Cameron is clearly determined to go to any lengths to avoid a head-to-head debate with Ed Miliband.
I know one of the reasons why: he is terrified of being held to account for his betrayal of the NHS.
Last time out, he promised to protect the NHS. There would be no top-down reorganisation, he said.
Within weeks of taking office, the PM went back on that. He brought a Bill before Parliament which is now forcing the privatisation of NHS services.
Cameron and Clegg did not have the permission of a single voter to put the NHS up for sale. They just did it.
They forced a privatisation plan through Parliament with the votes of people loaded up to the eyeballs with private health interests.
The Great NHS sell-off is a Parliamentary scandal.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/chicken-david-cameron-terrified-live-5323622
David Cameron is clearly determined to go to any lengths to avoid a head-to-head debate with Ed Miliband.
I know one of the reasons why: he is terrified of being held to account for his betrayal of the NHS.
Last time out, he promised to protect the NHS. There would be no top-down reorganisation, he said.
Within weeks of taking office, the PM went back on that. He brought a Bill before Parliament which is now forcing the privatisation of NHS services.
Cameron and Clegg did not have the permission of a single voter to put the NHS up for sale. They just did it.
They forced a privatisation plan through Parliament with the votes of people loaded up to the eyeballs with private health interests.
The Great NHS sell-off is a Parliamentary scandal.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/chicken-david-cameron-terrified-live-5323622
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Just before a GE there are always stories about each party! Smear campaigns and bad news stories.....
Yawn. Each party is as crap as the other.
If you actually think labour will be any better than the Tories.......madness!!
Yawn. Each party is as crap as the other.
If you actually think labour will be any better than the Tories.......madness!!
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What! This has been going on since the last election, this isn't just now it's happening. £780MILLION PRIVATISED. Oh yes Ed, it's only a smear campaign! That'll be why top doctors in the NHS are standing for Parliament because they are so incenced at what Cameron has done!
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yeah, and like millipede will reverse it...will he hell
the last lot had how many years to reverse maggies idiocy and did what ??? exactly....carried on the same game....
because of course tory and labour alike suck the cocks of the same masters....
still the bigger mess the tories make the harde millipede will have to work...at least it might keep him off my back....
the last lot had how many years to reverse maggies idiocy and did what ??? exactly....carried on the same game....
because of course tory and labour alike suck the cocks of the same masters....
still the bigger mess the tories make the harde millipede will have to work...at least it might keep him off my back....
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http://labourlist.org/2015/01/miliband-unveils-nhs-promise-as-labours-3rd-election-pledge-as-burnham-outlines-10-year-vision-for-the-health-service/
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risingsun wrote:What! This has been going on since the last election, this isn't just now it's happening. £780MILLION PRIVATISED. Oh yes Ed, it's only a smear campaign! That'll be why top doctors in the NHS are standing for Parliament because they are so incenced at what Cameron has done!
And you think plywood Ed is going to reverse this?
Wake up sassy
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Wake up youself, he has already laid out the plans.
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risingsun wrote:Wake up youself, he has already laid out the plans.
I laid out an acre of turf...dont mean to say I'm going to get a lawn......
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darknessss wrote:risingsun wrote:Wake up youself, he has already laid out the plans.
I laid out an acre of turf...dont mean to say I'm going to get a lawn......
And the grass is no greener.
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It isn't? Then you obviously haven't taken the time or trouble to read exactly what each party intends to do if they get in.
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