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(not satire – it’s the coalition government!)
The government has awarded an £80 million NHS contract to a private firm despite the company charging taxpayers £7 million more than an NHS consortium bidding against it:
Stoke NHS hospital scanning contract won by private firm
More proof – if any more were needed – that the Lib Dem/Tory government’s mad dash to privatise eveything in its sights is a purely political aganda and nothing to do with saving taxpayers money.
The government – of course – have not said why the private firm won the contract despite its bid being more expensive.
That’s because the bidding process was – of course – secret:
“This whole process has been shrouded in secrecy. We don’t even know who – expert adviser or public representative – were on the panel.”
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Pride's Purge 
How depressing.
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The Tories are hellbent on doing as much damage as possible, because they know that they are finished and this article confirms my premise.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11321769/Iain-Duncan-Smith-to-accelerate-benefit-reforms-to-stop-Labour-reversing-them.html
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it is saddening but of course we have Tony Bliar to thank for this as he sent NHS Control to Brussels during his term so his Bilderburg paymasters can cherry pick
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Backhanders whot whot bribes given back into the tories pot but most of a scandal isnt the publi waking up to the fact this lot are lining their own pockets if thats not criminal whot is jeff3
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the cheapest and best way to run any public service is if the public actually run it…it should all be renationalized…see dr lucy reynolds vids re 2012 health and social care act…. and also this vid presented by prof allyson pollock http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz5dl9fhj7o
6% nhs admin costs are turned into 40% admin costs and much poorer services by profitisations…and don’t forget TTIP!
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More proof that the Tories and their Lib Dem enablers are ideologically driven to privatise the health service. As Tom Pride himself points out, this has absolutely nothing to do with cost or value for money. It is simply about exploiting the treatment of the sick and disabled as a ‘revenue stream’ to gain massive profits.
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Watch this Video its a real find. http://vimeo.com/26718047
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loo
there’s ‘no logo’
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victedy
no labour will cut as deep, £53bn this time..in fact the following is a real possibility…
https://archive.today/ww2Yf A Tory-Labour unity coalition may be the only way forward after 7 May…
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A lot of stuff like this is done by private firms. It’s been going on for years and started long before the coalition. It’s not privatisation it’s just outsourcing. Also the idea that the bid assessment process was biased is ludicrous unless the individuals involved were corrupt/criminal etc which is extremely unlikely. Tom obviously has no experience of such things. The bid assessment panel obviously has to be unknown to outside parties to prevent pressure being applied. This is normal practice in both government and private industry bid assessments. Unlike the other posters on this blog I have been involved in bid assessments both as a civil servant and as a private industry consultant.
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You might also wonder, if the hospital are given £8 million in a bequest and use part of this to cover two thirds of the cost of a scanner which they house, how those contributing the remaining third own the scanner and not the hospital.
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cliver
outsourcing and profitisation/privatization are as you claim entirely different…with profitisation/privatization the nhs or org loses control over what ever faculty is profitised/privatized, and now belongs to another other than the nhs or the any other org…so it is all down to who owned the work in the 1st place ie was this work originally done by the nhs? if it was, then what we see profitisation/privatization, unless the work reverts back to the nhs once the contract has expired, which is outsourcing (subcontractor)…logically therefore if this is entirely new work, it is in fact neither, but if it once was nhs work then it is privatisation/profitisation…..imv this is work that originally would have been expected to be done by the nhs….but as the nhs had to bid for work that it was originally doing (if it was) then this is not outsourcing…this person does have experience of these things, to hear what she thinks click the following link….actually i just love any excuse to post this link…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkTnCtg_Omk
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absolutely disgusting
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The Tories are trying to vandalize as much of the NHS as possible before they get thrown out along with their little yellow helpers.
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To overburdeneddonkey
Scanning services is exactly the type of thing which should be considered for outsourcing. This is a 10 year contract and so is outsourcing. It is a CONTRACT so the customer is ,us the taxpayers ultimately , but in this case a commisioning group in Stoke can put in any safeguards re NHS patient access, speed of access quality they like. It was a competitive tender so if the contractor won’t comply they can be told to get knotted as there is the in house option to go to. Alliance Medical are a company we should be happy to be contracted to the NHS. Obviously there is a profit element in their cost to us the tax payer. But as they are a major expertise centre for this service and they will be more agile, be less bureaucratic etc , the cost to us with should normally be less than an In house bid. In this case why the alliance bid was more expensive I don’t know. Most of what we know about this comes from. Stoke local paper. Now local paper reporters are notorious for getting things wrong even worse than the scum national press like the Mail etc. So hopefully the full facts will be revealed soon from s reliable source.
By the way I strongly believe the NHS should remain in public hands. The question is what public are we talking about.
In the past the NHS tended to be run for the convenience of the doctors and particularly the consultants and not us the patients. All the staff were very caring but they did things in hospitals the way the consultants decreed and resources weren’t used efficiently. Of course now there’s too much non medical management .
So then the NHS was effectively run by an elite of highly paid consultants who also did private work as they do now.
Is that what you want to go back to. The medical profession including nurses Etc are a vested interest group like any other who’s interests may not always coincide with us the taxpayers. Obviously private medical companies are in the same category. It’s up to government of whatever hue to stand up to all vested interest groups and do what’s best for the us. It strikes me most governments don’t realise the power they could employ over vested interests or perhaps they go for the least upset, short term , no strategy , election winning option.
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clever1
my position is unchanged…and i refer you to the work of dr lucy reynolds and this lady… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz5dl9fhj7o profitisation of the national health service makes things even worse…we need to get back to it’s roots but without the elitism… govts should butt out of the nhs…. the nhs is supposed to be for the benefit of we the people, not a political football for govts to kick about and make a living from… not for profit…btw french pensioners live 5yrs longer than we in the uk…. prevention being better than cure…
we need much better social security benefits and wages, build more eco homes/villages food coops, food growing coops, worker coops, work share et al
and get rid of the excess admin baggage, we all know there is ie the lords….and the costs of running the nhs (national ill service) and our state will fall dramatically…we are no longer an industrial nation….
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The percentage by value of private contacts is very small. Why should Dr Lucy Reynolds be regarded as the answer to everything she’s just another person from a vested interest group.
The truth is the NHS has a demand problem. The demand is going up at a rate which far exceeds the UKs capacity to meet it. No western democracy with ageing populations has solved this problem.
The life span of pensioners depends on loads of things but not the way the NHS is organised. In this country the shortest life span groups are the poorest economically and who because of their economic situation tend to have unhealthy diets, smoke more, drink more etc. They also tend not to read health advice as existing from day to day is their current situation. It will take many years to improve their lot. Increasing benefits isn’t the answer that will make things worse. There is no simplistic short term solution. Cooperatives have their place but won’t solve the problem.
The very Young children of the poorest groups need to have positive role models in their formative years virtually from birth to instil in them self worth and ambition and a desire to get themselves a better life than their parents.
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clever1 aka ff?
i’ve already answered your points, behaviourism/role models is not the the answer and are in fact the cause…the clip above is from prof allyson pollock…both have answers to the causes of the nhs’s current problem’s…
Click to access UKXX2_en.pdf
the uk with a median income replacement benefit rate of 0.189 is ranked 46th in a table of 51 france is 0.479 15th….
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It’s pointless referring to people who happen to agree with your pre ordained views. Sadly people on who are strongly left or right are unable to be objective.
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We can all find so called experts to back up views we already hold. It’s what political activists do of whatever hue or what politicians do in general. They are all good at selectively quoting statistics or just referring to studies they like the results of. As I have said already there is no simplistic panacea which will quickly solve our problems. All western democratic countries have similar issues to face. The world is a much more complicated place since when the NHS was set up with less things under the governments control. The NHS and the welfare state as set up by the Attlee government would today be regarded by the left in UK politics as harsh and uncaring. It was a safety net and then families and friends were expected to step in and help people suffering set backs such as unemployment. It was a source of embarrassment then to be on the social as it was called.
One question people strongly on the left should answer. Why has there never been a democratic country which has enjoyed prosperity with far left politics. Left of centre/social democrats in Europe have had the most success since ww2 in countries like Sweden, but even Sweden has had to face economic reality.
For a long time after WW2 the far left in the UK blindly supported the USSR and ignored inconvenient facts which disagreed with their world view. It’s the same today sadly.
The Atlee government was of the left in terms of nationalisation etc but did things like initiating the UK atomic bomb programme which today’s left find abhorrent. Labour governments after that updated the UK deterrent but kept it a secret from their activists. Of course then there was a real threat from the USSR. Today the nuclear deterrent is just something UK prime ministers like to have to enable them to feel important and operate at the top table in world politics. It serves no other useful purpose.
A pragmatic approach from the centre is what’s required. I call it capitalism with a human face to misquote the former leader of the Prague Spring who was overthrown by the Soviet Empire in 1968. Still as Stalin had died by then at least they let him live rather than execution after a show trial.
The UK far left don’t go in for executions, well they can’t because there’s virtually no chance of there ever being a far left government in the UK. They just go in for ignorant personal abuse and scapegoating similar to UKIP but with different targets.
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clever1
but you advocate behaviourism and the product of which is pre-ordination….
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