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Published in: ourNHSTory links of health agencies exposed as Hunt lines up next NHS sell-off in EnglandWhilst understaffed wards and surgeries turn to well-connected private sector agencies to fill the gaps created by...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe student loan privatisation must be resistedSelling off the student loans will actually cost the government more, as well as the students - but it'll be a...
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Published in: ourNHSLondon's NHS at the crossroadsA duty of candour for NHS managers and ending cash-driven closures - those are amongst the recommendations of the...
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Published in: ourNHSOutsourcing cancer care - the biggest and most reckless NHS privatisation yet?
Outsourcing over a billion pounds of cancer and end-of-life services is reckless and shows just how threadbare...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCaroline Lucas MP is wrong: the Public Service Users Bill is a bad idea
We 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.
