NHS TAKE OVER Virgin win ?700million contract to run more than 200 NHS services

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Richard Branson?s Virgin Care has won a ?700million contract to run more than 200 NHS services, it has emerged

RICHARD Branson?s Virgin group has won a ?700million contract to run more than 200 NHS services, it has emerged.

Virgin Care, which is owned by billionaire Richard Branson, will run adult social services, and some children's health services in Somerset from April

It marks the first time a for-profit firm will deliver a council?s social care services for adults.

Health bosses NHS Clinical Commissioning Group for Bath and North East Somerset yesterday voted unanimously in favour the deal with Virgin Care.

It was approved by 35 votes to 22 at a council meeting Bath.

It means Virgin Care, a private company, will run or oversee more than 200 health care and social care services in the area.

The seven-year contract is thought to be the financially-largest deal the company has ever won from a single authority.

But it is understood Virgin Care will reinvest any profit.

Earlier this year Virgin Care were awarded a ?126million contract to take over services at hospitals in Kent.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/2165717/virgin-win-700million-contract-to-run-more-than-200-nhs-services/

[GastonJ]

and the NHS won't be privatised, safe in Tory hands

[Meat-Head]

and the NHS won't be privatised, safe in Tory hands

Tweet your local tory mp and ask

[gopher7]

While everyone was distracted by the comedy show (election) in America, over here another part of the NHS is privatised.

[GastonJ]

If it's anything like their adventures in railway companies and their foray into running my GP's practices, then it's going to need an 18 year target instead of 18 weeks to see patients

[ifred]

A least you'll be served by a pretty girl in a smart uniform and get free upgrades.....sorry wrong that was just the airline!
Surprised he has any money left after brexit ruined the country (According to him)!

[Meat-Head]

Looks like noel edumnds in the phoyo

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Our next Prime Minister...

[GastonJ]

Just on the back of this

The King's Fund was told senior leaders at NHS England and NHS Improvement, which regulate NHS trusts, wanted to "manage" the narrative around the process, because of the sensitive nature of some of the changes.
NHS chiefs are trying to keep plans to cut hospital services in England secret, an investigation has found.
Full details of 44 reviews of services around the country - which involve closing some A&Es or, in one case, a whole hospital - are yet to emerge.
That is because NHS England told local managers to keep the plans "out of the public domain" and avoid requests for information, the King's Fund suggested.
Managers were even told how to reject freedom of information requests.

The King's Fund report did not include any details of cuts, but from the leaks and plans that have been published so far a partial picture is emerging of what is involved.
This includes:

• Plans in south west London to close one of five hospitals - St George's, Kingston, Croydon, St Helier or Epsom
• The North Tees proposal to centralise specialist services, including A&E, on two sites. It would lead to services being downgraded at one of the three major hospitals in the area
• In Devon bosses are looking at whether to close some A&E, maternity and stroke services at hospitals across the county so they can be centralised at bigger sites
• In Merseyside there has been talk of merging four hospitals - the Royal Liverpool, Broadgreen, Aintree and Liverpool Women's - to plug a ?1bn shortfall, according to leaked documents
• Plans in Birmingham and Solihull involve reorganising maternity services with fears this could result in fewer units
• Bosses at North Central London have talked about a consolidation of services on fewer sites, leading to fears that the Whittington Hospital could lose its A&E

During its research, the King's Fund carried out interviews with staff involved in four of the reviews, known as sustainability and transformation plans (STPs). These were done on an anonymised basis.
The local managers said they had been told to keep the process "private and confidential", which one described as "ludicrous", while another said the leadership had made the "wrong judgement call" in its approach to managing the process.
Another person involved complained about being in meetings and wondering why there were no "real people", such as patients and members of the public, involved.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-37943379

Shutting down more hospitals while at teh same time awarding large contracts to companies that have already proved they cannot be trusted to provide services, let alone provide NHS services.