NHS for Sale: Myths, Lies & Deception (41 page)

18
http://blackpoolccg.nhs.uk/about-blackpool-ccg/who-we-are/our-governing-body/
.

19
http://www.nhsforsale.info/private-providers/private-provider-profiles-2/virgin.html
.

20
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/commissioning/conflict-of-interest-fears-lead-virgin-to-take-over-gp-partnerships/20000663.article#.VF4avofCSng
.

21
Nunns A. 2013. It is almost a year since the controversial Health and Social Care Act was passed in March 2012,
Red Pepper
18 February, available.
http://www.redpepper.org.uk/the-health-hurricane-a-year-of-destruction-in-the-nhs/
.

22
Full text available (page 7)
http://www.healthemergency.org.uk/he-issues/he71.pdf
.

23
http://blackpoolccg.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Spire-Monitor-Investigation-25.09.14.pdf
.

24
http://www.hsj.co.uk/news/finance/regulator-rejects-private-hospitals-complaint-against-ccgs/5075165.article#.VF-FSIfCSnh
.

25
Calkin S. 2014. ‘Devon presses ahead with procurement plans’,
HSJ,
7 November, available (£)
http://www.hsj.co.uk/hsj-local/ccgs/nhs-north-east-west-devon-ccg/new-devon-presses-ahead-with-procurement-plans/5076567.article#.VHMrFo1ybxk
.

26
Barnes S. 2014. Patient transport service fails to improve, HSJ 25 July, available. (£)
http://www.hsj.co.uk/hsj-local/ccgs/nhs-west-kent-ccg/patient-transport-service-fails-to-improve/5073302.article#.VHMto41ybxk
.

27
https://www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/caroline-molloy-louise-irvine/stop-hospital-closure-clause
.

28
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/01/clause-118-would-leave-no-hospital-england-safe
.

29
http://www.unitetheunion.org/how-we-help/list-of-sectors/healthsector/healthsectorcampaigns/unite4ournhs/the-care-bill--clause-118/
.

30
http://www.nhscc.org
.

31
http://www.nhscc.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Letter-and-slide-clarifying-NHSCC-CA.pdf
.

32
http://www.nhscc.org/about-us/whos-who/people/dr_johnny_marshall/
.

33
http://www.neessexccg.nhs.uk/cms_useruploads/files/cc2h_full_business_care_for_board_nov_2014.pdf
.

34
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/political-news/labour-to-remove-commissioning-powers-from-gps-for-vulnerable-patients/20007326.article#.VHIIPYvCSng
.

35
http://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2014/11/nxt-steps-pc-cocomms.pdf
.

36
For the full story of the media’s failure to challenge the legislation see
NHS SOS.

37
http://www.gponline.com/gps-risk-losing-patient-trust-ccg-cuts-lmcs-warn/article/1183910
.

38
http://www.hsj.co.uk/home/commissioning/clare-gerada-the-health-act-made-me-ill/5064376.article#.VF4KqIfCSng
.

39
http://www.rcgp.org.uk/news/2013/october/clare-gerada-final-keynote-speech.aspx

40
http://www.rcgp.org.uk/campaign-home.aspx
.

41
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/mar/23/family-doctor-service-brink-extinction
.

42
http://www.rcgp.org.uk/news/2014/april/funding-for-general-practice-set-to-plummet-by-fifth-by-2017.aspx
.

43
http://press.conservatives.com/post/98811391555/jeremy-hunt-speech-to-conservative-party-conference
.

44
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/home/finance-and-practice-life-news/tens-of-thousands-of-gps-on-brink-of-early-retirement-bma-finds/20006182.article#.VFJdNYfCSnh
.

45
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/mar/24/family-doctors-considering-early-retirement
.

46
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/home/finance-and-practice-life-news/tens-of-thousands-of-gps-on-brink-of-early-retirement-bma-finds/20006182.article#.VFJjHIfCSng
.

47
http://careers.bmj.com/careers/advice/view-article.html?id=20018342
.

48
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/your-practice/practice-topics/education/health-secretary-announces-independent-review-to-assess-gaps-in-gp-workforce/20008103.article#.VFJgc4fCSng
.

49
http://bma.org.uk/news-views-analysis/news/2014/october/government-seeks-answers-on-gp-shortage
.

50
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/home/stop-practice-closures/one-in-20-gps-considering-closing-their-practice-by-next-spring/20008370.article?msgid=38019#.VHM1KI1ybxk
.

Chapter 5

1
http://www.wired-gov.net/wg/wg-news-1.nsf/0/033E9E6D28D4372F8025790300307B6B?OpenDocument
.

2
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jul/26/nhs-managers-redundancy-payments-total?CMP=twt_gu
.

3
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8290861.stm
.

4
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/jul/11/andrew-lansley-jobs-purge-nhs
.

5
http://blogs.channel4.com/factcheck/factcheck-the-truth-about-the-nhs-reform-bill-myths/8160
.

6
http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/current-projects/leadership-commission/the-changing-role-of

7
http://www.gponline.com/rcgp-urges-doh-slow-down-health-bill/article/1078261
.

8
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jul/26/nhs-managers-redundancy-payments-total?CMP=twt_gu
.

9
https://fullfact.org/factchecks/andrew_lansley_and_the_cost_of_nhs_bureaucracy-1570
.

10
http://www.nhsforsale.info/database/impact-database/increased-bureaucracy.html
.

11
https://www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/gary-walker/kings-fund-suggests-nhs-fees-but-is-it-really-independent
..

12
https://www.gov.uk/government/…data/…/DH-6083-PCCR-IA-Final.pdf
.

13
http://nhsrationing.org/tag/competitive-tendering/
.

14
http://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2014/feb/26/nhs-competitive-tendering-process
.

15
http://andyburnhammp.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/nhs-check-spiralling-cost-of-camerons.html
.

16
Ibid.

17
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11282888/NHS-spending-on-management-consultants-doubles-under-Coalition.html
.

18
www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g7243
.

19
http://www.pharmafile.com/news/174130/nhs-must-tackle-tsunami-bureaucracy
.

20
http://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2013/mar/25/how-bureaucracy-nhs-reduced
.

21
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10462858/NHS-doctors-spend-10-hours-a-week-on-bureaucracy.html
;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22206882
.

Chapter 6

1
17 January 2011,
http://www.channel4.com/news/the-nhs-reforms-and-you
.

2
8 June 2011;
www.hospitaldr.co.uk/features/lansley-interview-we-shouldnt-separate-care-and-management
.

3
Conservativehome. 25 April 2009: ‘Lansley promises to secure spending on healthcare as part of a ten point SAVE OUR NHS plan’,
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/torydiary/healthcare/
.

4
Lansley, A. 2010. Speech to NHS Confederation conference 24 June 2010,
Health Policy Insight,
http://www.healthpolicyinsight.com/?q=node/583
.

5
People’s Inquiry into London’s NHS 2014.
London’s NHS at the Crossroads,
http://www.peoplesinquiry.org/pdf/NHSattheCrossroadsfulldoc.pdf
, p. 39.

6
Leys C. Player, S. 2008.
Confuse and Conceal: the NHS and Independent Sector Treatment Centres,
Merlin Press, London.

7
Leys, C., Player S. 2011.
The Plot Against the NHS,
Merlin Press, London.

8
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/statutory-guidance-for-trust-special-administrators-appointed-to-nhs-trusts
.

9
Fisher B. 2013. ‘Clause 118 of care bill threatens hospitals with downsizing or closure’,
Guardian,
18 December,
http://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2013/dec/18/care-bill-clause-118-threatens-hospitals
.

10
For some historical background see Lister J. 2008.
The NHS after 60, For patients or profits?
Middlesex University Press.

11
Rathfelder M. 2013.
Patient voice?
Socialist Health Association, 6 April,
http://www.sochealth.co.uk/2013/04/06/patient-voice/
.

12
Lister J. 1998.
Casting Care Aside,
A response to Worcestershire Health Authority’s proposals for rationalisation of hospital services, researched
for Wyre Forest District Council,
http://www.healthemergency.org.uk/pdf/WORCS%20Kidderminster.pdf
.

13
Lister J. 2003.
Journalists Briefing Pack: What’s the argument over Foundation Trusts?
London Health Emergency,
http://www.healthemergency.org.uk/pdf/journospackandfreedoms.pdf
.

14
Lister J. 2009a.
Healthworkers Guide to World Class Commissioning,
UNISON Eastern Region,
http://www.healthemergency.org.uk/workingwu/Healthworkersguide.pdf
; Lister J. 2009b.
What are they doing to our NHS?
Public Information Sheet, UNISON Eastern Region,
http://www.healthemergency.org.uk/workingwu/Publicguide.pdf
; Lister J. 2008.
Fragmenting the NHS, Dangers to staff, services and patients from ‘social enterprises’,
UNISON Oxfordshire Health Branch,
http://www.healthemergency.org.uk/workingwu/SocialEnterprisepamphlet.pdf
.

15
Lister J. 2009c. UNISON
Eastern Eye,
UNISON Eastern Region,
http://www.healthemergency.org.uk/workingwu/TCS4pager.pdf
.

16
Department of Health Social Enterprise Unit. 2008.
Social Enterprise – Making a Difference,
http://www.socialenterprise.org.uk/uploads/files/2011/11/social_enteprise_making_a_difference_guide.pdf
.

17
Burnham A. 2009. Speech by the Rt Hon Andy Burnham, Secretary of State for Health, 17 September 2009 to the King’s Fund,
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/www.dh.gov.uk/en/MediaCentre/Speeches/DH_105366
.

18
Health Emergency,
2008. No. 65, Summer,
http://www.healthemergency.org.uk/he-issues/he65.pdf
; Lister J. 2007.
Under the Knife, a response to the A Picture of Health review,
http://www.healthemergency.org.uk/workingwu/Undertheknife.pdf
.

19
Nursing in Practice,
2008. ‘Lord Darzi sets out tough rules for changes in the NHS’, 9 May,
http://www.nursinginpractice.com/article/lord-darzi-sets-out-tough-rules-changes-nhs
.

20
http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/sites/files/kf/dealing-with-financially-unsustainable-providers-anna-dixon-tony-harrison-sept12.pdf
.

21
Trust Special Administrator, 2013.
Securing sustainable NHS services: the Trust Special Administrator’s report on South London Healthcare NHS Trust and the NHS in south east London,
http://moderngov.southwark.gov.uk/documents/s35012/TSA%20Final%20Report.pdf
.

22
http://www.leighday.co.uk/News/2013/July-2013/High-Court-quashes-decision-by-Jeremy-Hunt-to-clos
.

23
BBC News, 2014. MPs grant powers to close local hospitals 11 March,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-26531807
.

24
Standfield C. 2013. Written evidence to the People’s Inquiry
into London’s NHS,
http://www.peoplesinquiry.org/pdf/PE-ColinStandfielddossier.pdf
.

25
BBC News, 2013. Ealing Council votes for A&E closures plan referral, 6 March,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-21664279
.

26
Lydall R. 2013. ‘Two London hospital A&E units axed while two more could have their services cut’,
Evening Standard
October 30,
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/two-london-hospital-ae-units-axed-while-two-more-could-have-their-services-cut-8913230.html
.

27
Independent Reconfiguration Panel, 2013.
Advice on Shaping A Healthier Future proposals for changes to NHS services in North West London
http://healthwatchhillingdon.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2013/10/SaHF_IRP_advice_Report_13.09.13.pdf
.

28
Adams, S. 2014. ‘A&E unit in London faces axe … after PM promised personally it would stay open’,
Daily Mail,
7 September,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2746480/A-E-unit-London-faces-axe-PM-promised-personally-stay-open.html
.

29
http://www.andyslaughter.co.uk/devastating_news_for_local_health_service_as_a_e_closures_and_charing_cross_demolition_get_go_ahead
.

30
http://www.gponline.com/gp-poll-halts-hospital-reconfiguration/article/1222046
.

31
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/356383/BM1492_NHSFT_quarterly_performance.pdf
.

32
Lister J. 2014b.
London’s NHS at the Crossroads: the report of the Peoples Inquiry into London’s NHS. Unite London & Eastern Region.
Full report:
http://www.peoplesinquiry.org/pdf/NHSattheCrossroadsfulldoc.pdf
.

Chapter 7

1
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/a-more-transparent-and-safer-nhs-for-patients
.

2
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/213823/dh_117794.pdf
.

3
Department of Health. 2010. Andrew Lansley announces NHS management costs to be slashed, Press release, copy available
http://www.lmc.org.uk/article.php?group_id=1849
.