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Published in: openDemocracyUKCaroline Lucas MP is wrong: the Public Service Users Bill is a bad ideaWe need to get rid of the unfair advantages enjoyed by the privatisers but let’s not undermine democracy in a...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWhy the universities strikes are about more than just a ‘measly’ pay offer
It's not just the money, it's the direction our marketised universities are taking - enormous rewards at the top...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTime for a popular solution to the perils of privatisationCaroline Lucas has launched the Public Service Users Bill in parliament, a critical first step to ending Britain's...
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Published in: ourNHSThe NHS - my part in its downfallI have broken the NHS in to digestible bits ripe for being eaten up by private companies, confesses an NHS clinician.
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Published in: openSecuritySouth Korea: rail workers, repression and resistance
An almost unreported strike in South Korea, which has just come to an end, epitomises how a ‘free’ market can be...
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Published in: ourNHSNHS regulations are unfair: they’ll stop us tax dodging!The healthcare companies taking over NHS provision are lobbying regulators to allow their tax avoidance schemes to continue.
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Published in: ourNHSCampaign guide - NHS Privatisation
The Health & Social Care Act 2012 paved the way for rapidly accelerating NHS privatisation in England - read on for...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe I wordWhen you hear a politician or a company boasting about "investment", always ask what the investors are getting in return.
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Published in: ourNHSA single stitch? $500 please
Hospital costs soar in the US, showing the failings of the marketised system just as England races towards it.
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Published in: ourNHSWho cares? Market forces, social care and the NHSIt's the competitive market in social care that has hammered down standards. The NHS must not follow care homes down...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWould the NHS fall apart without private providers?The NHS needs private provision like ambulances, but needs to regulate them better, suggests a voice from the private sector.
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Published in: ourNHSShould we turn the NHS into co-ops and mutuals?As the government again pushes the 'mutualisation' of the NHS, Professor Dexter Whitfield argues all such transfers...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe realities of outsourcing: court interpreters mean miscarriages of justiceSince court interpreting has been outsourced, wages have plummeted, quality of interpreting has dropped to a...
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Published in: ourNHSDoes the NHS need a 'new broom' from the private sector?
New NHS boss Simon Stevens will inherit an NHS in crisis. Will his outsider status and private sector experience be...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKPrivatisation, a very British diseaseBritain is an extreme oddity regarding privatisation: nowhere else in the advanced world is there such a willingness...
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Published in: ourNHSHow to abolish a free health service, step one
The migrant NHS plans are just the first and politically easiest step to ending a 'free at the point of use' NHS.
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Published in: ourNHSYour right to knowPrivatisation of the NHS is gathering pace, but the public currently has little right to know how our money is spent.
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Published in: ourNHSNHS on the brink of extinction
The results will be terminal if coalition reforms are not reversed, warns Kailash Chand.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKPublic ownership is ridiculously popular. Why does no one campaign for it?A new poll yet again shows the overwhelming popularity of public ownership of public services in the UK. Yet no...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKInspector "very concerned" by G4S prison praised by GraylingChris Grayling discribed G4S run prison HMP Oakwood as an "excellent model for the future of the prison service"....
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