Nigel Farage Caught On Camera Calling For A US-Style Privately Run NHS

[Meat-Head]

with all the meds I might as well kill myself now if this came in

1) can I have your password so I can leech downloads

2) remember to order a child proof lid for your coffin

[GastonJ]

Bit late for that

The value of clinical contracts awarded by local health commissioning groups has risen to just over ?2bn between April and September this year, data shows.
Of the total contracts awarded since April 2013, more than half have gone to non-NHS providers, says the NHS Support Federation.

A ?1.2bn contract for cancer and end-of-life care in Staffordshire, currently out to tender, has caused controversy because it is the biggest such outsourcing deal in NHS history.

One of the first contracts of its kind has been awarded to a private company to organise musculoskeletal services (care of muscles and joints) in Bedfordshire. Circle started the five-year ?120m contract in April this year. Its role is to co-ordinate care, using hospitals and physiotherapists as necessary. (Have a contract and use our staff... hmmm)

BBC News - More than half of local health contracts 'go outside NHS'

Is your local GP surgery already a profit-making company? Our 2010 study found 23 commercial companies ran a total of 227 GP surgeries and health centres. These companies can be given contracts without any public consultation, while thorough information on the safety and quality of services they provide is currently not open to public scrutiny. Furthermore, if they don't make enough profit they can simply pull out of their contracts.

NHS Support Federation - Who Runs Our GP Services?

Interactive map to what's already been privatised

NHS for sale :: Mapping Privatisation

Makes interesting reading, and yes Virgin Care will soon be losing me off their books.

[Meat-Head]

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Bupa, see a quack whilst others wait TM. How do they do it?

[GastonJ]

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Bupa, see a quack whilst others wait TM. How do they do it?

They take teh simple straight forward jobs. Should anything go wrong while you're in there you get shipped off to NHS A&E or ITU so the taxpayer can foot the bill for that.

Dave's idea for old people not having to sell their homes to pay for care:

The means test for social care leads to people being forced to sell their family homes to pay for care. For the first time, we will allow everyone – on retirement – to protect their homes from being sold to fund residential care costs by paying a one-off insurance premium of ?8,000.

Sorry isn't paying ?8000 to some insurance company (a private company no doubt) paying for care rather than being free (funded by taxation people have paid all their lives?)

And, as a progressive government, we will weight public health funding so that extra resources go to the poorest areas with the worst health outcomes through a new ‘health premium’

Health premium? sounds like insurance talk to me.

To give patients even more choice, we will open up the NHS to include new independent and voluntary sector providers – if they can deliver a service that patients want, to a high standard and within the NHS tariff, then they should be allowed to do so. To make sure all providers have the right incentives to succeed, we will implement a ‘payment for results’ system throughout the NHS.

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/fi...-manifesto.pdf

Independent sector being companies like Serco who did so well at runing the Braintree Hospital in Essex.

A private company's decision to end an NHS management contract early could threaten the future of an Essex hospital, users have said.
Serco took over at Braintree Community Hospital in 2011 but in December announced it was ending its contract this December, three months early.
The company said not enough patients were using the facility.

In a statement, Serco said: "Since taking over operations in 2011, the predicted level of patient referrals to the hospital has not materialised and Serco's opportunities to improve usage of the hospital are limited."

BBC News - Braintree Community Hospital's future feared as Serco cuts contract

I guess they meant it didn't make them enough money because there weren't enough patients who wanted to go there and be treat. So the quick answer is just get out of treating patients, after all not profitable enough. Perhaps they'd prefer more people to be run over so they could make more money?

In the link below you'll find some interesting info on Serco and it's political links

NHS for sale :: Serco

Better list of those with vested interests in private healthcare companies

http://socialinvestigations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/compilation-of-parliamentary-financial.html

[Meat-Head]

Great work gm. (iShit Failiure). Can you keep an eye out fir dirt on Arnold. Thankssssss