Tories ‘are hiding figures that show NHS is heading to £2bn deficit’
The NHS cash crisis is so bad that the government is burying the figures until after the Tory party conference, top health officials have claimed.
We are being leaned on to delay them and I have a suspicion that the sensitivity would be less after the Tory party conference,’ one Monitor official said.
Ed Miliband: Conservatives have secret plan to reorganise NHS after election
Leading health thinktank condemns ‘damaging’ Tory NHS reforms
The coalition’s shake-up of the NHS
was misguided, deepened the growing problems facing A&E units and
left it weaker, structurally “incomprehensible” and less able to improve
care for patients, according to a leading health thinktank.In an assessment of the government’s NHS record, the King’s Fund said that the reorganisation forced through by then health secretary Andrew Lansley in the early period of the coalition was “damaging and distracting” for a health service that should have been preparing for the serious challenges it is now confronting.
Prof Chris Ham, the King’s Fund’s chief executive, said: “Historians will not be kind in their assessment of the coalition government’s record on NHS reform. The first three years were wasted on major organisational changes when the NHS should have been concentrating on growing financial and services pressures. This was a strategic error.”
Left the structure of the NHS so “complex, confusing and bureaucratic” that the organisation of the service “is not fit for purpose”.
Wasted the time of NHS bosses, who were “distracted as they were required to rearrange the deckchairs rather than navigate safely past the iceberg” of growing demand for care and the service’s tightest-ever financial squeeze.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/feb/06/nhs-reforms-tories-damaging-thinktank-kings-fund
David Cameron's Lies Exposed!
April 2010 - When in oppositionand shortly before the 2010 general election Cameron promised:
"No more top down reorganisation of the NHS"
TRUTH- This was a straight and blatant lie! The Tories' attempt to dismantle the NHS has been a long time in the planning.
Back in 2005 Andrew Lansley made a speech to the NHS Confederation spelling out Conservative priorities for the NHS. These included privatisation, a pro-competition regulator and the delegation of NHS budgets to GPs. The building blocks of the Health and Social Care Bill were there from the very first days of Cameron's leadership of the Tory party. He knew this, both he and Andrew Lansley had been planning the biggest reforms in the NHS in its 63 year old history.
What we now have is a health service which is a shambolic and incomprehensible mess, with the confusion heightened by the plethora of amendments which were thrown into the Health & Social Care Bill (now an Act) in a desperate attempt by the Tories to keep the Lib Dems on board. In fact Cameron and Lansley need not have worried, the Liberal Democrats voted with the government for the destruction and privatisation of the NHS. Now in late 2012 and before the Health & Social Care Act is fully implemented the NHS is showing serious fault lines of collapse.
"No more top down reorganisation of the NHS"
TRUTH- This was a straight and blatant lie! The Tories' attempt to dismantle the NHS has been a long time in the planning.
Back in 2005 Andrew Lansley made a speech to the NHS Confederation spelling out Conservative priorities for the NHS. These included privatisation, a pro-competition regulator and the delegation of NHS budgets to GPs. The building blocks of the Health and Social Care Bill were there from the very first days of Cameron's leadership of the Tory party. He knew this, both he and Andrew Lansley had been planning the biggest reforms in the NHS in its 63 year old history.
What we now have is a health service which is a shambolic and incomprehensible mess, with the confusion heightened by the plethora of amendments which were thrown into the Health & Social Care Bill (now an Act) in a desperate attempt by the Tories to keep the Lib Dems on board. In fact Cameron and Lansley need not have worried, the Liberal Democrats voted with the government for the destruction and privatisation of the NHS. Now in late 2012 and before the Health & Social Care Act is fully implemented the NHS is showing serious fault lines of collapse.
The Privatisation of the NHS
With the failure of the last challenge to Andrew Lansley’s wretched NHS reform bill in the House of Commons, where Labour’s emergency debate
was defeated by 328 votes to 246, I have to ask: how is it possible, in
a so-called democracy, for a government without a mandate to ignore the
complaints of healthcare professionals, at every level, and push ahead
with a bill that will do more damage to the NHS than anything in the
health service’s 64-year history?
Criticism of Andfew Lansley’s bill, throughout the NHS, has been intense from the moment it was first unveiled last January, as I reported last February, in an article entitled, Battle for Britain: Resisting the Privatization of the NHS and the Loss of 100,000 Jobs, and in March the BMA (the British Medical Association), which represents 140,000 doctors and medical students, voted to “call a halt to the proposed top down reorganisation of the NHS” and to “withdraw the Health and Social Care Bill.”
- See more at: http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2012/03/20/the-privatisation-of-the-nhs-why-it-will-be-the-death-knell-for-the-tory-led-coalition-government/#sthash.7hXmjEI4.dpuf
Criticism of Andfew Lansley’s bill, throughout the NHS, has been intense from the moment it was first unveiled last January, as I reported last February, in an article entitled, Battle for Britain: Resisting the Privatization of the NHS and the Loss of 100,000 Jobs, and in March the BMA (the British Medical Association), which represents 140,000 doctors and medical students, voted to “call a halt to the proposed top down reorganisation of the NHS” and to “withdraw the Health and Social Care Bill.”
- See more at: http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2012/03/20/the-privatisation-of-the-nhs-why-it-will-be-the-death-knell-for-the-tory-led-coalition-government/#sthash.7hXmjEI4.dpuf
With
the failure of the last challenge to Andrew Lansley’s wretched NHS
reform bill in the House of Commons, where Labour’s emergency debate was
defeated by 328 votes to 246, I have to ask: how is it possible, in a
so-called democracy, for a government without a mandate to ignore the
complaints of healthcare professionals, at every level, and push ahead
with a bill that will do more damage to the NHS than anything in the
health service’s 64-year history? - See more at:
http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2012/03/20/the-privatisation-of-the-nhs-why-it-will-be-the-death-knell-for-the-tory-led-coalition-government/#sthash.7hXmjEI4.dpuf
The
Privatisation of the NHS: Why It Will Be the Death Knell for the
Tory-Led Coalition Government - See more at:
http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2012/03/20/the-privatisation-of-the-nhs-why-it-will-be-the-death-knell-for-the-tory-led-coalition-government/#sthash.7hXmjEI4.dpuf
NHS is in crisis - Addenbrooke is the 24th in special measures
Oliver Letwin's rule number one when wanting to privatise public services is to run them down, and so the government's NHS policy is to starve hospitals (and GPs) of funds, and then its inspectors can report hospital care is inadequate. Adenbrooke hospital is one of England's most prestigious but the Care Quality Commission has put it into special measures. As with so many, the hospital has found it difficult to recruit and, owing to rising demand and reduced government funding it now has a £1.2 million weekly overspend.
Oliver Letwin's rule number one when wanting to privatise public services is to run them down, and so the government's NHS policy is to starve hospitals (and GPs) of funds, and then its inspectors can report hospital care is inadequate. Adenbrooke hospital is one of England's most prestigious but the Care Quality Commission has put it into special measures. As with so many, the hospital has found it difficult to recruit and, owing to rising demand and reduced government funding it now has a £1.2 million weekly overspend.
The
Privatisation of the NHS: Why It Will Be the Death Knell for the
Tory-Led Coalition Government - See more at:
http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2012/03/20/the-privatisation-of-the-nhs-why-it-will-be-the-death-knell-for-the-tory-led-coalition-government/#sthash.7hXmjEI4.dpuf
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