An NHS Burning and in Chaos
Although the rhetoric of ‘choice’ implies patients having a greater variety of health care options from which to choose, the reality is that patients and communities are experiencing a range of closures, cut-backs and disruptions to their local services
This reveals an NHS in a state of shambles and disorder. No one can argue that the
various assaults upon the NHS are the result of patients’ choices or the culling of inefficient services (as claimed by the prophets of market competition). They are the result of a transition from an NHS based on rational, needs-based health planning towards a health service that will increasingly be run by private
companies and guided by a capricious and unforgiving market. Centrally imposed demands to meet government targets prior to the last elections have also aided and abetted the disastrous organisational reforms to the NHS.
The Secretary of State for Health is quick to blame financial deficits on individual hospital trusts and PCTs.
But a proper analysis of the deficits and their widespread nature clearly points to problems inherent in the government’s own reforms.
The crisis in the NHS, reflected only in part by the list of closures, cut-backs and disruptions, appears to be veering out of control, and is in danger of bringing the NHS to a point of collapse. It is not inconceivable that this is the desired aim of government policy – the more avid supporters of marketisation feel that a proper market will only be established when the NHS disappears.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Profits Before Patients
Under John Major.s Conservative government in 1996-97, after 18 years of Tory rule, the NHS was spending just £200 million a year on buying in treatment from private hospitals and clinics.
By 2007, if the Labour government.s current proposals are carried through, this will have increased tenfold.
New private hospitals and treatment centres are being built, with more planned, and in some cases existing NHS facilities - built with taxpayers. money, or expensively funded through the Private Finance Initiative at the expense of the NHS - are to be handed over to private sector operators as part of the new arrangements.
Private sector preference
The government plan to funnel new money preferentially into the private sector rather that adopt the cheaper and easier policy of expanding NHS provision, has led to a dramatic expansion of commercial medicine. The private health care sector in the UK has always been a relatively small and marginal operation, feeding off historic NHS waiting lists, poaching NHS staff, shunning emergencies and complex cases, and focusing exclusively on acute (short stay) services: but until recently it was running with only around half of the beds occupied in its (generally very small) hospitals. Now a massive increase in the numbers of NHS patients being
treated in private beds means that the traditional paying patients will only represent just over half of the caseload in private beds, with as many as 45% paid for by the NHS.
This is effectively a huge cash subsidy to enable the expansion of a private sector which will inevitably draw on the same pool of human and financial resources as the NHS, but divert a percentage of those resources from patient care to pay dividends to their shareholders.
To foster an expansion of private care to enable it to develop a sustainable market., ministers have set out to bring in commercial health care companies from around the world, and also offered private hospitals very generous contracts, paying up to 40% above the prevailing costs within the NHS, lavish subsidies towards start-up costs for new private hospitals, and guaranteed payment even for those private providers who treat fewer patients than planned.
Far from delivering new and expanded services and capacity the private sector is
increasingly competing to capture existing NHS caseload, diverting vital funds from
NHS to the commercial sector.
Under John Major.s Conservative government in 1996-97, after 18 years of Tory rule, the NHS was spending just £200 million a year on buying in treatment from private hospitals and clinics.
By 2007, if the Labour government.s current proposals are carried through, this will have increased tenfold.
New private hospitals and treatment centres are being built, with more planned, and in some cases existing NHS facilities - built with taxpayers. money, or expensively funded through the Private Finance Initiative at the expense of the NHS - are to be handed over to private sector operators as part of the new arrangements.
Private sector preference
The government plan to funnel new money preferentially into the private sector rather that adopt the cheaper and easier policy of expanding NHS provision, has led to a dramatic expansion of commercial medicine. The private health care sector in the UK has always been a relatively small and marginal operation, feeding off historic NHS waiting lists, poaching NHS staff, shunning emergencies and complex cases, and focusing exclusively on acute (short stay) services: but until recently it was running with only around half of the beds occupied in its (generally very small) hospitals. Now a massive increase in the numbers of NHS patients being
treated in private beds means that the traditional paying patients will only represent just over half of the caseload in private beds, with as many as 45% paid for by the NHS.
This is effectively a huge cash subsidy to enable the expansion of a private sector which will inevitably draw on the same pool of human and financial resources as the NHS, but divert a percentage of those resources from patient care to pay dividends to their shareholders.
To foster an expansion of private care to enable it to develop a sustainable market., ministers have set out to bring in commercial health care companies from around the world, and also offered private hospitals very generous contracts, paying up to 40% above the prevailing costs within the NHS, lavish subsidies towards start-up costs for new private hospitals, and guaranteed payment even for those private providers who treat fewer patients than planned.
Far from delivering new and expanded services and capacity the private sector is
increasingly competing to capture existing NHS caseload, diverting vital funds from
NHS to the commercial sector.
What exactly is Serco?
Serco is one of a new breed of company that could be termed a ‘public sector corporation’ as approximately 98% of its turnover and revenue are derived from contracts outsourced by public bodies. These projects include operating speed cameras, electronically tagging offenders and running the Manchester Metrolink. Serco has governmental links at the highest level.ii It is involved in controversial PFIschemes, and has PFI, PPP and joint venture contracts with the MoD, Home Office and Department of Transport. It even runs airports in Iraq for the US and has counter-terrorist contracts including detecting radiological substances coming into the UK. Serco’s revenue in 2005 was £2.26bn, up 38% from the previous year, with profit before tax up 28.5%.
Serco is one of a new breed of company that could be termed a ‘public sector corporation’ as approximately 98% of its turnover and revenue are derived from contracts outsourced by public bodies. These projects include operating speed cameras, electronically tagging offenders and running the Manchester Metrolink. Serco has governmental links at the highest level.ii It is involved in controversial PFIschemes, and has PFI, PPP and joint venture contracts with the MoD, Home Office and Department of Transport. It even runs airports in Iraq for the US and has counter-terrorist contracts including detecting radiological substances coming into the UK. Serco’s revenue in 2005 was £2.26bn, up 38% from the previous year, with profit before tax up 28.5%.
Political Debate
There is to be a Political debate in Huntingdon during the General Election Campaign, yet only 3 of the candidates have been invited, not a democracy then?
The shameful thing is, that when the organiser was challenged by one of the other uninvited candidates, he was told in no uncertain terms that it was "a private event" although it is ticket only and the telephone was slammed down on him....
It seems to confirm that the publication that is "organising" this charade is being run so it indicates that they are indeed supporting or even maybe bank rolling the sitting M.P.
In the last few years we have heard very little from the said M.P but of course he will come out of the woodwork now it is time to get re elected.
With having a local publication inviting the M.P to a debate that clearly will be weighted in the M.P's favour and only having Lib Dem and Labour candidates to debate with, clearly it is nothing more than a rallying call to the party faithful and nothing more.
It is a shameful attempt to prevent other candidates in being recognised by the electorate and in all honesty, being that one issue to be debated is the Hospital, None of the 3 candidates are supporting our campaign.
I find it also a damning indictment that this debate subjects are just the subjects that the Independent Candidate is campaigning on. They must be concerned that the Independent Candidate will take votes away
Shameful and outrageous actions and there must be some very scared people out there if they cannot campaign cleanly so the voters can make an informed choice, not a co erced choice
There is to be a Political debate in Huntingdon during the General Election Campaign, yet only 3 of the candidates have been invited, not a democracy then?
The shameful thing is, that when the organiser was challenged by one of the other uninvited candidates, he was told in no uncertain terms that it was "a private event" although it is ticket only and the telephone was slammed down on him....
It seems to confirm that the publication that is "organising" this charade is being run so it indicates that they are indeed supporting or even maybe bank rolling the sitting M.P.
In the last few years we have heard very little from the said M.P but of course he will come out of the woodwork now it is time to get re elected.
With having a local publication inviting the M.P to a debate that clearly will be weighted in the M.P's favour and only having Lib Dem and Labour candidates to debate with, clearly it is nothing more than a rallying call to the party faithful and nothing more.
It is a shameful attempt to prevent other candidates in being recognised by the electorate and in all honesty, being that one issue to be debated is the Hospital, None of the 3 candidates are supporting our campaign.
I find it also a damning indictment that this debate subjects are just the subjects that the Independent Candidate is campaigning on. They must be concerned that the Independent Candidate will take votes away
Shameful and outrageous actions and there must be some very scared people out there if they cannot campaign cleanly so the voters can make an informed choice, not a co erced choice
The Time is Near
I think the time is near, where we will be on a countdown to a General Election.
We will all need to search our souls this time we vote.
There is NO clear water between Labour and the Tories, they are one and the same.
Tory health policy, no matter what they say to your face and how they claim to be the party of the NHS, they are clearly not
While Mr Cameron was in the UK, smiling and telling voters what they wanted to hear, the author of Thatcherism was doing his usual in the USA.
What he was doing was giving the U.S based companies notice that the Tories were going to give away Public Services to the highest bidder...or Rather Sell off the NHS.
I quote
"We will implement a very systematic and powerful change agenda where hospitals compete for patients, schools compete for pupils, welfare providers compete for results in getting people out of welfare and into work." and they also offers a powerful advocacy of introducing transformational free-market principles into Britain's public sector.
PRIVATISATION.......TO YOUR NHS....NOT JUST HINCHINGBROOKE BUT THE NHS
CAN YOU AFFORD HEALTHCARE?....
VOTE FOR FREE HEALTHCARE OR VOTE FOR TORY PRIVATISATION...YOUR CHOICE
REMEMBER.....THATCHERISM IS STILL ALIVE...IT NEEDS ENDING FOR GOOD
I think the time is near, where we will be on a countdown to a General Election.
We will all need to search our souls this time we vote.
There is NO clear water between Labour and the Tories, they are one and the same.
Tory health policy, no matter what they say to your face and how they claim to be the party of the NHS, they are clearly not
While Mr Cameron was in the UK, smiling and telling voters what they wanted to hear, the author of Thatcherism was doing his usual in the USA.
What he was doing was giving the U.S based companies notice that the Tories were going to give away Public Services to the highest bidder...or Rather Sell off the NHS.
I quote
"We will implement a very systematic and powerful change agenda where hospitals compete for patients, schools compete for pupils, welfare providers compete for results in getting people out of welfare and into work." and they also offers a powerful advocacy of introducing transformational free-market principles into Britain's public sector.
PRIVATISATION.......TO YOUR NHS....NOT JUST HINCHINGBROOKE BUT THE NHS
CAN YOU AFFORD HEALTHCARE?....
VOTE FOR FREE HEALTHCARE OR VOTE FOR TORY PRIVATISATION...YOUR CHOICE
REMEMBER.....THATCHERISM IS STILL ALIVE...IT NEEDS ENDING FOR GOOD
Friday, March 19, 2010
What's in a Title
Quite a lot in fact and some titles can be misleading.
If you listen to Radio 5 overnight you will hear a slot where Dr Karl answers listeners questions, Dr Karl is an Australian Scientist mainly Physics and in conversation he referrers to callers as "Dr" in fun.
On a more serious note, the main lead who is in fact the Commercial Director at the Strategic Health Authority or in lay terms ......the person that is charged with the task of PRIVATISING THE NHS IN EAST ANGLIA uses the title of Dr too.
Now Dr Stephen Dunn is a Doctor in the finance sector BUT NOT a Doctor of Medicine......
This obviously is MISLEADING and MAKING IT ACCEPTABLE to believe that as his title is DR then what he says is right, when in fact and like the majority of the MP's on the stakeholder panel DO NOT have the interests of Hinchingbrooke and the people of Huntingdonshire and the surrounding are, in mind
This obviously indicate that the influence of the Conservative state of Cambridgeshire has now leached and poisoned further into the local infrastructure than should be allowed.
MR DUNN, appears to be following the Conservative parties Health Policy which clearly states "Opening up the NHS to new independent and voluntary sector providers" which in lay terms is PRIVATISING THE NHS and Hinchingbrooke is the 1st one of this dangerous experiment, an experiment with OUR MONEY, OUR HEALTH AND WE HAVE NO SAY
THEY ARE HOLDING PUBLIC MEETINGS AWAY FROM THE PEOPLE WHO REALLY MATTER, THIS SATISFIES THE NEED TO CONSULT WITH THE PUBLIC, BUT NOT THE PUBLIC WHO ARE REALLY AFFECTED BY THE OUTCOME OF THE PRIVATISATION OF HINCHINGBROOKE.
THE PROCESS STINKS....IT IS NOT TRANSPARENT....IF IT WAS THEN THE PUBLIC MEETINGS WOULD BE HELD IN EVERY MARKET TOWN AND EVERY 2 WEEKS.......AND MORE IMPORTANTLY
MR DUNN WOULD NOT BE USING THE TITLE OF DR TO COERCE THE PEOPLE OF HUNTINGDONSHIRE INTO ACCEPTING THE PRIVATISATION OF HINCHINGBROOKE........
We need to go a new way........The only way is to choose the right person to vote for in the General Election and there is ONLY one who cares about local issues.
This man is JONATHAN SALT..... a Local man, Like myself and one who cares and is prepared to fight for MORE FUNDING FOR POLICE/FIRE/EDUCATION/HEALTH & LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN CAMBRIDGESHIRE - putting right what the Tories took from us in the 1980's with their swingeing cuts.....Lets be honest the Local Tory MP's have done nothing to raise this issue to fight the Labour party in the 13 years that Labour have been in power........
Let us stop the 30 YEARS OF NEGLECT - the Tories started Broken Britain, Greedy Britain, Selfish Britain & Labour carried it on, even though they pledged to return to values of old......they made new laws to combat behaviours yet did nothing to return family values and integrity.......
Vote wisely...... Vote for Independent....Vote for Jonathan Salt
Quite a lot in fact and some titles can be misleading.
If you listen to Radio 5 overnight you will hear a slot where Dr Karl answers listeners questions, Dr Karl is an Australian Scientist mainly Physics and in conversation he referrers to callers as "Dr" in fun.
On a more serious note, the main lead who is in fact the Commercial Director at the Strategic Health Authority or in lay terms ......the person that is charged with the task of PRIVATISING THE NHS IN EAST ANGLIA uses the title of Dr too.
Now Dr Stephen Dunn is a Doctor in the finance sector BUT NOT a Doctor of Medicine......
This obviously is MISLEADING and MAKING IT ACCEPTABLE to believe that as his title is DR then what he says is right, when in fact and like the majority of the MP's on the stakeholder panel DO NOT have the interests of Hinchingbrooke and the people of Huntingdonshire and the surrounding are, in mind
This obviously indicate that the influence of the Conservative state of Cambridgeshire has now leached and poisoned further into the local infrastructure than should be allowed.
MR DUNN, appears to be following the Conservative parties Health Policy which clearly states "Opening up the NHS to new independent and voluntary sector providers" which in lay terms is PRIVATISING THE NHS and Hinchingbrooke is the 1st one of this dangerous experiment, an experiment with OUR MONEY, OUR HEALTH AND WE HAVE NO SAY
THEY ARE HOLDING PUBLIC MEETINGS AWAY FROM THE PEOPLE WHO REALLY MATTER, THIS SATISFIES THE NEED TO CONSULT WITH THE PUBLIC, BUT NOT THE PUBLIC WHO ARE REALLY AFFECTED BY THE OUTCOME OF THE PRIVATISATION OF HINCHINGBROOKE.
THE PROCESS STINKS....IT IS NOT TRANSPARENT....IF IT WAS THEN THE PUBLIC MEETINGS WOULD BE HELD IN EVERY MARKET TOWN AND EVERY 2 WEEKS.......AND MORE IMPORTANTLY
MR DUNN WOULD NOT BE USING THE TITLE OF DR TO COERCE THE PEOPLE OF HUNTINGDONSHIRE INTO ACCEPTING THE PRIVATISATION OF HINCHINGBROOKE........
We need to go a new way........The only way is to choose the right person to vote for in the General Election and there is ONLY one who cares about local issues.
This man is JONATHAN SALT..... a Local man, Like myself and one who cares and is prepared to fight for MORE FUNDING FOR POLICE/FIRE/EDUCATION/HEALTH & LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN CAMBRIDGESHIRE - putting right what the Tories took from us in the 1980's with their swingeing cuts.....Lets be honest the Local Tory MP's have done nothing to raise this issue to fight the Labour party in the 13 years that Labour have been in power........
Let us stop the 30 YEARS OF NEGLECT - the Tories started Broken Britain, Greedy Britain, Selfish Britain & Labour carried it on, even though they pledged to return to values of old......they made new laws to combat behaviours yet did nothing to return family values and integrity.......
Vote wisely...... Vote for Independent....Vote for Jonathan Salt
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Hospitals 'should axe thousands more beds'
is what I read this morning........
A think tank....no doubt being paid outrageous sums of money claim "Reform says the NHS's focus should move away from hospital treatment as more people suffer from conditions, such as diabetes, which can be treated at home.
It says a quarter of beds could be axed to fund more personalised treatment.
The government said local health chiefs could decide, while the British Medical Association said cuts made for purely financial reasons would be "immoral".
The hospital bed count has been falling for decades, but Reforms's call represents a more rapid programme than has been seen in recent years.
There were just under 300,000 beds in 1987, but by last year that had fallen to 160,000 as advances in treatment have meant patients do not need to spend as long in hospital."
SO THAT OUTLOOK IS OKAY IN PRINCIPAL...... BUT...... BEFORE YOU CUT HOSPITAL BEDS YOU HAVE TO MAKE SURE THERE IS ENOUGH SUPPORT IN THE COMMUNITY.
IN CAMBRIDGESHIRE THIS IS NOT THE CASE AND UNDER THE CURRENT FUNDING ARRANGEMENTS NOTHING WILL CHANGE.
EVEN IF YOU HAVE CLUSTERS OF G.P'S TO "POLICE" REFERRALS TO HOSPITALS, WHERE WILL YOU SEND THOSE WHO NEED TREATMENT?..... YOU WONT BECAUSE THE INFRASTRUCTURE DOES NOT EXIST. WE WERE TOLD IN 2006/07 THAT OPTION 2 WOULD PROVIDE CARE IN THE COMMUNITY -- AS WE SAID ---- IT DIDN'T --- SURPRISE SURPRISE....
IT APPEARS THAT IT WAS CLEARLY A SYSTEM OF SOUND BITES TO "ENCOURAGE" PATIENTS - THE TAXPAYER - NOT TO BOTHER USING THE NHS AND TO USE YOUR PHARMACIST INSTEAD.....YET THE GOVERNMENT HAVE GIVEN A CLEAR MESSAGE THAT NHS TREATMENT IS A RIGHT AND YOU WILL BE SEEN BY A GP AND IF REQUIRED YOU WILL BE TREATED WITHIN 18 WEEKS.....
THIS WILL NOT CHANGE, IF THE CONSERVATIVES SHOULD GET INTO POWER THEN THE NHS IS DOOMED, THEY HAVE PLEDGED TO
"Opening up the NHS to new independent and voluntary sector providers"
WHICH MEANS THEIR USUAL ETHOS OF PRIVATISATION ---IN OTHER WORDS A GIFT FOR THEIR CHUMS AND DONORS.....
BEFORE YOU VOTE CONSIDER THIS...... IF YOUR NHS OR PARTS OF YOUR NHS ARE PRIVATISED....WHAT WILL IT LOOK LIKE AFTER 10/20 YEARS?....
TO GET THE ANSWER.....LOOK AT THE ROADS,RAILS,WATER.ELECTRIC/GAS....WHAT KIND OF SERVICE DO YOU GET FROM THEM NOW.... VERY POOR...IF YOU CAN GET ANYWHERE,CHEAPLY AND WHEN YOU WANT TO AT THE PRICE YOU CAN AFFORD...
THIS IS WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE NHS IF THE TORIES GET THEIR WAY....STOP THEM FROM RUINING YOUR HEALTH CARE......
THEIR 1ST ATTEMPT WAS CONTRACT CLEANING....THEN WE GOT SUPER BUGS DUE TO SHORTCUTS & LACK OF CLEANING MATERIALS, SO THAT SHAREHOLDER CAN BE PAID BONUSES....THE REAL SCANDAL IS.....THAT THE RECENT DEEP CLEAN OF HOSPITALS WAS PAID FOR BY US....WHY WASN'T THE BILL FOR THIS SHARED AMONGST THE CLEANING CONTRACTORS THAT CLEARLY HAD NOT DONE THE JOB PROPERLY FOR MANY YEARS?...
IN SCOTLAND THEY HAVE TAKEN CLEANING BACK IN HOUSE AND THEIR HOSPITALS ARE NOW CLEAN, THOROUGHLY CLEAN....
THE NHS IS THE POOR COUSIN, IT GETS THE RAW DEAL AND IS USED FOR EXPERIMENTATION.
CAR PARKING IS FREE IN WALES AND SCOTLAND....WHY NOT ENGLAND TOO....PRESCRIPTIONS ARE FREE IN SCOTLAND AND WALES- WHY NOT ENGLAND...?
is what I read this morning........
A think tank....no doubt being paid outrageous sums of money claim "Reform says the NHS's focus should move away from hospital treatment as more people suffer from conditions, such as diabetes, which can be treated at home.
It says a quarter of beds could be axed to fund more personalised treatment.
The government said local health chiefs could decide, while the British Medical Association said cuts made for purely financial reasons would be "immoral".
The hospital bed count has been falling for decades, but Reforms's call represents a more rapid programme than has been seen in recent years.
There were just under 300,000 beds in 1987, but by last year that had fallen to 160,000 as advances in treatment have meant patients do not need to spend as long in hospital."
SO THAT OUTLOOK IS OKAY IN PRINCIPAL...... BUT...... BEFORE YOU CUT HOSPITAL BEDS YOU HAVE TO MAKE SURE THERE IS ENOUGH SUPPORT IN THE COMMUNITY.
IN CAMBRIDGESHIRE THIS IS NOT THE CASE AND UNDER THE CURRENT FUNDING ARRANGEMENTS NOTHING WILL CHANGE.
EVEN IF YOU HAVE CLUSTERS OF G.P'S TO "POLICE" REFERRALS TO HOSPITALS, WHERE WILL YOU SEND THOSE WHO NEED TREATMENT?..... YOU WONT BECAUSE THE INFRASTRUCTURE DOES NOT EXIST. WE WERE TOLD IN 2006/07 THAT OPTION 2 WOULD PROVIDE CARE IN THE COMMUNITY -- AS WE SAID ---- IT DIDN'T --- SURPRISE SURPRISE....
IT APPEARS THAT IT WAS CLEARLY A SYSTEM OF SOUND BITES TO "ENCOURAGE" PATIENTS - THE TAXPAYER - NOT TO BOTHER USING THE NHS AND TO USE YOUR PHARMACIST INSTEAD.....YET THE GOVERNMENT HAVE GIVEN A CLEAR MESSAGE THAT NHS TREATMENT IS A RIGHT AND YOU WILL BE SEEN BY A GP AND IF REQUIRED YOU WILL BE TREATED WITHIN 18 WEEKS.....
THIS WILL NOT CHANGE, IF THE CONSERVATIVES SHOULD GET INTO POWER THEN THE NHS IS DOOMED, THEY HAVE PLEDGED TO
"Opening up the NHS to new independent and voluntary sector providers"
WHICH MEANS THEIR USUAL ETHOS OF PRIVATISATION ---IN OTHER WORDS A GIFT FOR THEIR CHUMS AND DONORS.....
BEFORE YOU VOTE CONSIDER THIS...... IF YOUR NHS OR PARTS OF YOUR NHS ARE PRIVATISED....WHAT WILL IT LOOK LIKE AFTER 10/20 YEARS?....
TO GET THE ANSWER.....LOOK AT THE ROADS,RAILS,WATER.ELECTRIC/GAS....WHAT KIND OF SERVICE DO YOU GET FROM THEM NOW.... VERY POOR...IF YOU CAN GET ANYWHERE,CHEAPLY AND WHEN YOU WANT TO AT THE PRICE YOU CAN AFFORD...
THIS IS WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE NHS IF THE TORIES GET THEIR WAY....STOP THEM FROM RUINING YOUR HEALTH CARE......
THEIR 1ST ATTEMPT WAS CONTRACT CLEANING....THEN WE GOT SUPER BUGS DUE TO SHORTCUTS & LACK OF CLEANING MATERIALS, SO THAT SHAREHOLDER CAN BE PAID BONUSES....THE REAL SCANDAL IS.....THAT THE RECENT DEEP CLEAN OF HOSPITALS WAS PAID FOR BY US....WHY WASN'T THE BILL FOR THIS SHARED AMONGST THE CLEANING CONTRACTORS THAT CLEARLY HAD NOT DONE THE JOB PROPERLY FOR MANY YEARS?...
IN SCOTLAND THEY HAVE TAKEN CLEANING BACK IN HOUSE AND THEIR HOSPITALS ARE NOW CLEAN, THOROUGHLY CLEAN....
THE NHS IS THE POOR COUSIN, IT GETS THE RAW DEAL AND IS USED FOR EXPERIMENTATION.
CAR PARKING IS FREE IN WALES AND SCOTLAND....WHY NOT ENGLAND TOO....PRESCRIPTIONS ARE FREE IN SCOTLAND AND WALES- WHY NOT ENGLAND...?
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Serco
This company is in the running as possible Franchisee to run Hinchingbrooke
This company have run Yarlswood Detention Centre since 2007, they cannot run that properly so what mess would they make of Hinchingbrooke
In April 2009, the Children's Commissioner for England published a report which stated that children held in the detention centre are denied urgent medical treatment, handled violently and left at risk of serious harm. The report details how children are transported in caged vans and watched by opposite sex staff as they dress.
A demonstration organised by Detainee Solidarity London Network was held on 12th February 2010 outside the Serco office in Holborn, London where a number of supporters and activists gathered to protest against the detention of women at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre.
The peaceful demonstration was staged in response to the treatment of women in detention at Yarl’s Wood who began a hunger strike on 5th February in protest against their prolonged detention.
The Testimony Project was represented at the protest, joining individual protestors and other organisations showing solidarity with Yarl’s Wood’s women. Among the organisations represented were No Borders London, SOAS and King’s College Detainee Support Groups, Feminist Fightback and Worker’s Liberty.
An activist from No Borders London commented on how important it is for detainees resisting on the inside to know that people are resisting in solidarity with them on the outside.
According to Feminist Fightback and the Campaign against Immigration Control, the hunger strike was called off on Tuesday, 9th February in the afternoon when officers broke up the strike and arrested four women who were the supposed leaders of the movement. These women have not yet been returned to Yarl’s Wood.
Outside the offices of Serco, the private company that manages Yarl’s Wood on behalf of the UKBA, supporters spoke of the conditions that the women on strike had been subject to. Some were trapped in a corridor for long hours without amenities whilst others were trapped outside in the snow. Women also say they were verbally and physically assaulted, racially abused and denied medical assistance.
Is this what we want for our Family members and fellow citizens......?
No if course we don't- Yet the Serco managers have allowed this to happen
If we don't oppose this proposal then we could have this at Hinchingbrooke
Stop the Privatisation of Hinchingbrooke and the NHS.......
This company is in the running as possible Franchisee to run Hinchingbrooke
This company have run Yarlswood Detention Centre since 2007, they cannot run that properly so what mess would they make of Hinchingbrooke
In April 2009, the Children's Commissioner for England published a report which stated that children held in the detention centre are denied urgent medical treatment, handled violently and left at risk of serious harm. The report details how children are transported in caged vans and watched by opposite sex staff as they dress.
A demonstration organised by Detainee Solidarity London Network was held on 12th February 2010 outside the Serco office in Holborn, London where a number of supporters and activists gathered to protest against the detention of women at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre.
The peaceful demonstration was staged in response to the treatment of women in detention at Yarl’s Wood who began a hunger strike on 5th February in protest against their prolonged detention.
The Testimony Project was represented at the protest, joining individual protestors and other organisations showing solidarity with Yarl’s Wood’s women. Among the organisations represented were No Borders London, SOAS and King’s College Detainee Support Groups, Feminist Fightback and Worker’s Liberty.
An activist from No Borders London commented on how important it is for detainees resisting on the inside to know that people are resisting in solidarity with them on the outside.
According to Feminist Fightback and the Campaign against Immigration Control, the hunger strike was called off on Tuesday, 9th February in the afternoon when officers broke up the strike and arrested four women who were the supposed leaders of the movement. These women have not yet been returned to Yarl’s Wood.
Outside the offices of Serco, the private company that manages Yarl’s Wood on behalf of the UKBA, supporters spoke of the conditions that the women on strike had been subject to. Some were trapped in a corridor for long hours without amenities whilst others were trapped outside in the snow. Women also say they were verbally and physically assaulted, racially abused and denied medical assistance.
Is this what we want for our Family members and fellow citizens......?
No if course we don't- Yet the Serco managers have allowed this to happen
If we don't oppose this proposal then we could have this at Hinchingbrooke
Stop the Privatisation of Hinchingbrooke and the NHS.......
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Cambridge congestion charge plans on hold
Another Cambridgeshire mess up......
Plans for a congestion charge in Cambridge have been put on hold after the government announced it was scrapping a scheme set up to fund it.
Cambridgeshire County Council had bid for £500m from the government's Transport Innovation Fund (TIF) to pay for congestion-cutting projects.
AND........ With £40m overspend on the guided bus, this puts the Hinchingbrooke historic debt into perspective......
The Process to Franchise/Outsource or whatever they want to call it....should stop new.
Mr Cameron says Reform......he means Privatise.... He says Co-operatives of Public Sector staff ca run some services.....he means Privatise....
The last 2 Tory Governments Privatised Public bodies.....you now pay more for worse services.....Your Gas/Electric/Trains/Buses/Water/Telephones to name a few have all suffered the fate of Privatisation......
So should they now Privatise Cambridgeshire County Council?....But then they wouldn't would they....They are a Tory Council......
Double Standards again......
Another Cambridgeshire mess up......
Plans for a congestion charge in Cambridge have been put on hold after the government announced it was scrapping a scheme set up to fund it.
Cambridgeshire County Council had bid for £500m from the government's Transport Innovation Fund (TIF) to pay for congestion-cutting projects.
AND........ With £40m overspend on the guided bus, this puts the Hinchingbrooke historic debt into perspective......
The Process to Franchise/Outsource or whatever they want to call it....should stop new.
Mr Cameron says Reform......he means Privatise.... He says Co-operatives of Public Sector staff ca run some services.....he means Privatise....
The last 2 Tory Governments Privatised Public bodies.....you now pay more for worse services.....Your Gas/Electric/Trains/Buses/Water/Telephones to name a few have all suffered the fate of Privatisation......
So should they now Privatise Cambridgeshire County Council?....But then they wouldn't would they....They are a Tory Council......
Double Standards again......
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