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The idea that the private sector is helping the NHS to deal with the aftermath of the COVID pandemic is a myth.
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In the midst of a lethal pandemic, the government controversially axed the main public health body (Public Health England) and announced the creation of yet another bureaucracy, designed by management consultants with no expertise in public health. History shows that without a clear overarching strategy and laws, these ad hoc reforms are likely to further hamper the UK’s ability to protect the population.
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David sets out worries about how coronavirus is being used to suspend or ignore safeguards designed to protect the public interest. Originally posted in OpenDemocracy
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The opaque financial structure of the major care home groups means that they are more vulnerable to collapse and enable hidden profits to leak out.
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Prof David McCoy considers the UK government’s approach to controlling the disease, the health system, and the social and economic impacts.
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The government’s recent deal with private hospitals, who will provide their beds and staff to help the NHS cope with coronavirus, has been framed as a significant boost for the NHS. But the larger benefits are arguably for the private hospitals themselves and their lenders and landlords, who in effect have received a bailout from the government at a time of crisis.
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This report identifies where each pound that goes into the care home industry ends up by using a forensic study of the accounts of over 830 adult care home companies. If finds significant levels of leakage of money from front-line care, including to profit, rental bills and debt repayments.
Today the Centre for Health and the Public Interest publishes its evidence to the Inquiry into the actions of the convicted Breast Surgeon Ian Paterson.
This report looks into how the private hospital sector uses financial incentives to attract NHS consultants to work for them.
This briefing summarises the key forces determining the price and availability of new medicines in the NHS.
This report analyses five options available to policy makers to address the problems caused by existing PFI schemes.
The idea that the private sector is helping the NHS to deal with the aftermath of the COVID pandemic is a myth.
David Rowland questions the common perception that the latest Government’s proposals for NHS reform represent a turn away from private sector involvement in the NHS and the market-based orthodoxy in health policy.
Professor Calum Paton argues the integration outlined in the government’s NHS white paper is not as “innovative” as its title might suggest
If there is any hope of providing a comprehensive hospital service right now, every hospital bed and every consultant should be placed under the direct control of the NHS and care should only be available on the basis of need not ability to pay.