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NHS is spending public money to train private companies to take over and profit from NHS

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The Any Qualified Provider (AQP) Supply2Health website carries an advertisement for a Provider Presentation – a training session for

“those who would like an overview of the AQP process and resources including how to qualify, together with a review of the Department of Health policy perspective”

The advertisement is placed by an organisation called North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative, on behalf of the  “lead commissioner”, NHS Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
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A plague on both ConDem and New Labour for failing their duty of care to the NHS

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Allyson Pollock, professor of public health research and policy at Queen Mary, University of London, points out that by removing the NHS from direct democratic accountability, New Labour reforms are at the root of a lapse in NHS standards. These have seen the Care Quality Commission (CQC) cover up an investigation into baby deaths at Furness Hospital in Cumbria, and investigate failures at Mid Stafforshire Hospital.

In 2009 New Labour “stripped out public accountability for the NHS,” moving it to arms-length, market-based inspection and enforcement under the new Care Quality Commission and Monitor – the economic regulator for the newly-marketised NHS. Until New Labour’s meddling, the NHS was directly accountable to the public, since it was under the direct control of the government.
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“I can assure you there will be no privatisation of the NHS under this government…” Craig Whittaker MP

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Craig Whittaker has refused to sign Early Day Motion 1188. EDM 1188 asks  for the annullment of the ‘new’ regulations (SI 2013/500) under Section 75 of the Health and Social Care Act – the ones that provide a stealth route to privatising the NHS. The advice of David Lock, a Queen’s Counsel employed by campaigning organisation 38 Degrees, is that the new regulations (the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No. 2) Regulations 2013),

“are likely to have the effect of both permitting and promoting the transfer of NHS services to private sector.”

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Our NHS is being dismantled for transnational corporations – Dr Lucy Reynolds

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This article is republished from the Opendemocracy website according to the terms of their Creative Commons licence

LUCY REYNOLDS 3 April 2013

As a key part of the EU-US trade deal currently being fleshed out, the Conservatives are making good on a decades old fantasy of theirs – breaking up the NHS and opening it to global business. This is the reality and it’s happening now.

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Please sign petition against ConDem’s new NHS privatisation plans

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Email from 38 Degrees follows:

“A new fight over NHS privatisation has just begun. Jeremy Hunt is trying to use new powers, hidden within last year’s controversial NHS laws, to force local GPs to privatise more health services. [1] This is one of the things we were afraid might happen – and now our worst fears are being confirmed. We need to do all we can to stop it.
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Ten things we’ll miss now the NHS has been gutted

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This post is copied (with some omissions and a slightly altered title) from Just Plain Sense Blogs by Christine Burns MBE , licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License. See Google for author details.