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Authors: Jacky Davis,John Lister,David Wrigley

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Trust Special Administrator. 2014. ‘Securing sustainable NHS services:
the Trust Special Administrator’s report on South London Healthcare NHS Trust and the NHS in south east London; (Vol. 1, p. 15ff;
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/213341/TSA-VOL-1.pdf
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One unfortunate side effect of this successful challenge was that there has still never been a proper external appraisal of the viability of the TSA’s proposals and their total cost.

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http://www.midstaffspublicinquiry.com/
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This is discussed in greater detail in Chapter 4.

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Yorkshire Post.
2013. ‘Anger over £6m taxpayer bill for NHS advisors’, 15 March,
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/main-topics/general-news/exclusive-anger-over-6m-taxpayer-bill-for-nhs-advisors-1-5501372
.

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This is discussed in greater detail in Chapter 4.

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Department of Health. 2013. ‘Investment in mental health in 2011 to 2012: working age adults and older adults’;
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/investment-in-mental-health-in-2011-to-2012-working-age-adults-and-older-adults
.

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Large, Z. 2014. ‘Major failings’ in CAMHS Tier Four services, a new review reveals, YoungMinds, July available
http://www.youngminds.org.uk/news/blog/2137_major_failings_in_camhs_tier_four_services_a_new_review_reveals
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http://www.nhsconfed.org/Networks/MentalHealth/LatestNews/Pages/Nick_Clegg_launches_action_plan.aspx
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‘The A&E departments at Ealing and Charing Cross hospitals must be sustained until further work to inform a final decision on the future of these two local hospitals has been completed and the alternative services that will provide a safe, high quality urgent emergency care system for local residents are in place.’ (p. 6 of IRP report), available:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/358743/000_LNW_report_13.09.13.pdf
.

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This and the following two paragraphs are based on information in Costly Savings, a report researched by John Lister for East Midlands Region of UNISON in spring 2014.

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Baker, K. 2014. ‘Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson bids to take over cancer and end of life care in NHS privatisation deal worth £1.2bn’, Mail Online, 6 November
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2823946/Sir-Richard-Branson-bids-NHS-privatisation-deal-worth-1-2billion.html#ixzz3N7k6F3f9
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BBC News. 2014. ‘Extreme worry’ over NHS Kernow £75m procurement plans’, 25 June:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-28025139
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Watt, N. 2014. ‘Income from private patients soars at NHS hospital trusts’,
The Guardian
19 August, available
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/19/private-patient-income-soars-nhs-privatisation

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Association of Directors of Adult Social Services. 2013. ‘Social care funding: ‘a bleak outlook is getting bleaker’, 6 May;
http://www.adass.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&id=914&Itemid=489
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Audit Commission. 2013. ‘Social care for older people Using data from the VFM Profiles’, July
http://www.audit-commission.gov.uk/2013/07/audit-commission-analyses-cost-of-social-care-for-older-people-in-a-value-for-money-briefing/
.

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Thomson A, Sylvester R. 2014. ‘This is going to hurt: it’s patients who pay as money runs out’,
The Times,
13 October,
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/health/news/article4234741.ece
https://nhsreality.wordpress.com/2014/10/13/this-is-going-to-hurt-its-patients-who-pay-as-money-runs-out/
).

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Lister J. 2014. ‘Behind the Smoke and Mirrors, neither Hinchingbrooke nor Circle are what they seem’, UNISON Eastern Region;
http://www.unisoneastern.org.uk/assets/library/document/s/original/smoke_and_mirrors.pdf
.

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Available
http://www.nhsstaffsurveys.com/Caches/Files/NHS_staff_survey_2013_RQQ_full.pdf
.

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Maude F., Lamb N. 2014. Mutuals in Health: Pathfinder Programme, Letter to foundation trusts, 24 July, available:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/343507/Letter_to_Foundation_Trusts_and_NHS_Trusts.pdf
.

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Department of Health. 2014. Application pack:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/343503/Mutuals_in_health_pathfinder_programme_application_pack.pdf
.

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See the response from UNISON Eastern Region to the various plans for hiving off community health services, available
http://www.healthemergency.org.uk/workingwu/TCS4pager.pdf
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http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/blog/2014/07/staff-led-nhs-improving-patient-care-engaging-staff-and-devolving-decision-making
.

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Lister J. 2007.
Fragmenting the NHS,
UNISON Oxfordshire Health Branch;
http://www.healthemergency.org.uk/workingwu/SocialEnterprisepamphlet.pdf
.

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Landale J. 2011. Plans to outsource public services ‘scaled back’, BBC News, 3 May,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-13273932
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Estimated at £1m.

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BBC News. 2014. ‘Jarrow March’ ends in pro-NHS rally in London, 6 September,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-29094093
.

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Stoye G. 2013. ‘Public payment and private provision: the changing landscape of healthcare in the 2000s’, IFS May 2013, available
http://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/publications/public-payment-private-provision-2000s
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http://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/5yfv-web.pdf
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Chapter 2

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BMJ2011;342:d566.

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It also uses data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and from the World Health Organisation. No one challenges its credentials.

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http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2014/jun/mirror-mirror
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BMJ2014;348:g3063.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/10550335/UK-has-fewer-doctors-per-person-than-Bulgaria-and-Estonia.html
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EF
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10768844/Hospital-bed-shortage-exposed.html
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www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.g3129
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O’Dowd A. Balance between GP and hospital doctor numbers may need to shift, says new NHS chief. BMJ2014;348:g3037.

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BMJ2014;348:g3129.

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http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/political/political-news/dh-to-hand-over-22bn-underspend-to-treasury/20004042.article#.VF9UTWIgGK1
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http://news.rapgenius.com/Noam-chomsky-the-state-corporate-complex-a-threat-to-freedom-and-survival-annotated#
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http://www.reform.co.uk/resources/0000/1069/The_cost_of_our_health__the_role_of_charging_in_healthcare.pdf
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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/31/10-pounds-each-save-nhs
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BMJ2014;348:g3498.

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Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have not followed the English NHS down the path of marketisation. The prospect of a marketised NHS being imported across the border into Scotland was used to encourage a ‘yes’ vote for independence in the Scots referendum.

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http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmhealth/268/26803.htm
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BMJ2012;344:e2868.

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BMJ2013;347:f5550.

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BMJ2013;347:f5550.

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BMJ2013;347:f5550.

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ref
http://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f6246
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BMJ2013;347:f5862.

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BMJ2013;346:f1733.

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http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/commissioning/commissioning-topics/ccgs/first-ccgs-under-investigation-for-breach-of-competition-regulations/20004715.article#.VJLtlPmsWHk
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In New Zealand an experiment in getting rid of the purchaser/provider split resulted in improved care for patients and a reduced demand on hospital services. GPs and consultants came together to improve decision making instead of competing with each other for funds.

BMJ2013;347:f5503.

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BMJ2014;349:g4515.

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A Comres poll in 2014 reported that 60 per cent of those who expressed an opinion would be prepared to pay more income tax if it was ring-fenced for the NHS, a sign of the high value the public places on the service.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/15/voters-tax-fund-nhs-poll
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Chapter 3

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/6060421/David-Cameron-the-NHS-is-safe-under-the-Conservatives.html
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2
http://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/gov/choiceandcompetition/
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For more details of the early NHS see: Lister J. 2008.
The NHS After 60: for Patients or Profits?
Faringdon: Libri Publishing.

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‘What lies beneath?’
HealthInvestor,
8 September 2010.

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http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/107565
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https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/50154/supplement/1
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Mathiason N, 2000. ‘Labour gets into bed with private medicine’,
The Observer
19 November,
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/nov/19/socialcare.policy
.

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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/patients-occupy-clinic-save-david-3417922
;

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-28972225
.

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Attached to an article: ‘Figures reveal decline in use of electronic referral system that allows patients to choose location of an outpatient appointment’ Nicholas Watt, 24 November 2013,
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/nov/24/patient-choice-nhs-going-backwards-labour
.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2673477/EXCLUSIVE-GPs-fail-spot-cancer-named-shamed-Health-Secretary-tells-Mail-Sunday-radical-new-policy-crack-doctors-miss-vital-diagnosis.html#ixzz3NcMkOv53
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10 December 2014.

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BMJ2014;348:g2274.

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http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/dec/28/sexual-health-clinics-doctors-fear-future-private?CMP=twt_gu
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http://www.hsj.co.uk/5063236.article?WT.mc_id=EditEmailStory&referrer=e2
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Paton, Calum. 2014. ‘At what cost? Paying the price for the market in the English NHS’ CHPI,
http://chpi.org.uk/reports/
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https://abetternhs.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/point/
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Chapter 4

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Speech, July 2010,
http://www.networks.nhs.uk/nhs-networks/qipp-network/news/andrew-lansleys-speech-on-an-nhs-driven-by-outcomes
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Letter to UK GPs, 16 February 2012.

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Quoted by Tomlinson, J. 2011.
Betrayal of the NHS must end, it’s time for doctors to fight back,
A Better NHS blog, 24 June, available.
https://abetternhs.wordpress.com/2013/06/24/betrayal/
.

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http://www.hsj.co.uk/comment/prime-provider-contracts-are-a-solution-for-the-nhs-not-a-problem
; Corrigan P, Laitner S. 2012.
The Accountable Lead Provider,
rightcare.nhs.uk
http://www.rightcare.nhs.uk/downloads/Rightcare_Casebook_accountable_lead_provider_Aug2012.pdf
.

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Iacobucci G. 2011. Just 5 per cent of GPs on commissioning group boards faced contested election,
Pulse
28 September, available
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/just-5-of-gps-on-commissioning-group-boards-faced-contested-election/12779846.article#.VKFh6DpAGg

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http://www.nhscc.org/ccgs/
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http://www.gponline.com/exclusive-sharp-rise-gps-quitting-ccg-board-roles/article/1211757
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http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/sites/files/kf/field/field_publication_file/clinical-commissioning-groups-report-ings-fund-nuffield-jul13.pdf
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Kailash Chand, ‘Jeremy Hunt should stop GP-bashing, or hospital referrals will skyrocket’
http://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2014/jun/30/jeremy-hunt-stop-gp-bashing
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http://www.ealingtoday.co.uk/shared/eaaeclosures002.htm?utm_content=buffer061ef&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
;
‘The Government is on a mission to bring it [the NHS] to its knees, so total privatisation can be hailed as the big rescuer’:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jeremy-hunt-michael-gove-need-3778197
#
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2673477/EXCLUSIVE-GPs-fail-spot-cancer-named-shamed-Health-Secretary-tells-Mail-Sunday-radical-new-policy-crack-doctors-miss-vital-diagnosis.html
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24362902
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http://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f4351
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholson_challenge
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http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/www.dh.gov.uk/en/FreedomOfInformation/Freedomofinformationpublicationschemefeedback/FOIreleases/DH_116520
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RCS. 2011. Procedures of Limited Clinical Value, a Briefing, available.
http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/publications/docs/rcs-briefing-procedures-of-limited-clinical-value?searchterm=procedures+of+limited+clinical+value
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