This is the first Plain Speaker report on the hospital cuts plans that are scheduled for public consultation, starting at the end of February.
In it you can find out about:
- Key elements of the plan – called Right Care Right Time Right Place
- Why we need the NHS Reinstatement Bill
- Why we need to keep both A&Es open
- Lack of evidence that the proposals will deliver health care to the required standards
- How successive governments have prioritised bailing out the bankers above properly funding public services for their own people
- How Monitor (the NHS “market competition” regulator) and management consultancy company Ernst and Young (with a vested interest in NHS privatisation) are behind the CCGs’ proposal
- A pattern of sacrificing publicly owned hospitals to protect PFI bankers’ profits