NHS for Sale: Myths, Lies & Deception (42 page)

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Authors: Jacky Davis,John Lister,David Wrigley

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Available
http://www.healthpolicyinsight.com/?q=node
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For one vivid example see Lister J, 2013. Dead Weight: Mid Yorkshire Hospital Trust’s impossible £2bn PFI burden, Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Branch of UNISON, available
http://www.healthemergency.org.uk/pdf/DeadWeight.pdf
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6
BBC News, 15 May 2012, NHS risk register veto ‘unjustified’,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18071681
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Department of Health. 8 May 2012. Risk register will not be published, Press Release, available
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/risk-register-will-not-be-published
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Department of Health. May 2012. Transition Programme Risks: Review of November 2010 risk register,
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/216553/dh_133980.pdf
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http://origin.library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1102665899193-1592/Health-Bill-Transition-Risk-Register-NC-15-Oct-10-Dept-Bd-Version-v1.pdf
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Gainsbury S. 2009. NHS spending: ‘McKinsey exposes hard choices to save £20bn’,
Health Service Journal
10 September,
http://www.hsj.co.uk/news/policy/nhs-spending-mckinsey-exposes-hard-choices-to-save-20bn/5005952.article
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11
Stevens S. October 2014. ‘Five Year Forward View’, NHS England,
http://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/5yfv-web.pdf
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http://www.healthemergency.org.uk/pdf/McKinsey%20affordability%20document%20for%20NHS%20London%202009.pdf
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http://www.nhsconfed.org/news/2014/03/hold-your-ground-for-a-settlement-that-meets-the-nhs-mandate-mental-health-leaders-urged
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https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/281250/Closing_the_gap_V2_-_17_Feb_2014.pdf
.

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Clark E. 2014. ‘GP service under ‘severe threat of extinction’, says top doctor’,
The Independent,
23 March, available
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/gp-service-under-severe-threat-of-extinction-says-top-doctor-9210654.html
.

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Lind S. 2014. ‘East London campaign to save GP practices expands with new rally’,
Pulse,
27 June, available
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/home/finance-and-practice-life-news/east-london-campaign-to-save-gp-practices-expands-with-new-rally/20007124.article#.VFzpt41ybxk
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http://www.england.nhs.uk/london/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2013/11/Call-Action-ACCESSIBLE.pdf
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http://www.rcgp.org.uk/news/2014/october/over-500-surgeries-at-risk-of-closure-as-gp-workforce-crisis-deepens.aspx
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The issue is discussed in the full report of the People’s Inquiry into London’s NHS (March 2014) available
http://www.peoplesinquiry.org/pdf/NHSattheCrossroadsfulldoc.pdf
.

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Large, Z. July 2014. ‘Major failings’ in CAMHS Tier Four services, a new review reveals, Young Minds,
http://www.youngminds.org.uk/news/blog/2137_major_failings_in_camhs_tier_four_services_a_new_review_reveals
.

21
Lind S. 2014. ‘NHS England to drop “cash for dementia diagnoses scheme’,
Pulse
26 November
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/home/finance-and-practice-life-news/nhs-england-to-drop-cash-for-dementia-diagnoses-scheme/20008567.article#.VHYgKo1ybxk
.

22
National Audit Office. November 2014. The financial sustainability of NHS bodies.
http://www.nao.org.uk/report/financial-sustainability-nhs-bodies-2/
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23
Roderick, P, Pollock, AM. 2014. ‘A wolf in sheep’s clothing: how Monitor is using licensing powers to reduce hospital and community service in England under the guise of continuity’,
BMJ
7 October, doi: 10.1136/bmj.g5603.

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Committee of Public Accounts. 2014. Monitor, regulating NHS Foundation Trusts, The Stationery Office, July 4, available
http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/public-accounts-committee/news/monitor-regulating-nhs-foundation-trusts-report/
.

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http://www.networks.nhs.uk/nhs-networks/ahp-networks/documents/AQP%20guidance.pdf/view
.

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http://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/aqp-sup-comserv.pdf
.

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https://www.nhs.uk/Services/Trusts/Overview/DefaultView.aspx?id=3240_accessed_26/11/14
.

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Syal, R., Bowers, S., Wintour, P., and Jones, S. 2013. ‘Margaret Hodge urges accountancy code of practice over role in tax laws theguardian.com’,
The Guardian,
April 26,
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/apr/26/margaret-hodge-accountancy-code-practice
.

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https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/monitor/about/our-governance
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Lilley R. 2014. No one answers, nhsmanagers.net, 12 August,
http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs136/1102665899193/archive/1118177786207.html
.

31
Borland S. 2014. ‘NHS watchdog chief goes private for hip Operation’,
Daily Mail,
April 19, available
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/…8139/NHS-watchdog-chief-goes-private-hip-operation-avoiding-three-month-wait-patients-face-hospitals-hes-meant-improving.html
.

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Hazell W. 2014. CQC chair: 30 acutes could end up in special measures,
Health Service Journal
March 14, available £
http://www.hsj.co.uk/news/cqc-chair-30-acutes-could-end-up-in-special-measures/5068936.article#.VFz7TY1ybxk
.

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Commons Health Committee. 2012.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmhealth/1816/181608.htm#note82
; The Lancet, 18 January 2012,
Offline: The scandal of device regulation in the UK.

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Monbiot G. 2013. This transatlantic trade deal is a full-frontal assault on democracy,
The Guardian,
November 4,
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/04/us-trade-deal-full-frontal-assault-on-democracy
.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/07/03/ttip-eu-us-trade-deal-unite-union_n_5554227.html
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Barnes S. 2014.’Patient transport service fails to improv’e, HSJ, 25 July, available (£)
http://www.hsj.co.uk/hsj-local/ccgs/nhs-west-kent-ccg/patient-transport-service-fails-to-improve/5073302.article#.VHYWhI1ybxk
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Chapter 8

1
11 May 2011,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8506816/Why-the-NHS-needs-competition.html
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2
Letwin O. 1988.
Privatising the World. A Study of International Privatisation in Theory and Practice,
London: Cassell, p. 34.

3
21 November 1864, letter to Col. William F. Elkins.

4
1 September 2014,
http://www.marlboroughnewsonline.co.uk/features/health-nhs/3391-the-nhs-and-privatisation-now-gp-practices-will-be-opened-up-to-private-providers
.

5
Pollock, Allyson M. 2005.
NHS Plc: The Privatisation of Our Health Care,
London: Verso; and Leys, Colin & Player, Stewart. 2011.
The Plot against the NHS,
London: Merlin Press.

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Woolhandler & Himmelstein. 2007.
British Medical Journal,
2007;335:1126.

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www.bjj.boneandjoint.org.uk/content/91-B/9/1154.abstract
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http://www.hospitaldr.co.uk/features/istc-programme-at-a-cross-roads-over-damning-evidence
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-24106914
; and
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/oct/28/nhs-deaths-clinic-carillion
.

10
Ibid.

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http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/aug/12/nhs-private-carillion-sight-clinicenta?guni=Article:in%20body%20link
.

12
Ibid.

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Ibid.

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http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2014/06/02/appalling-service-provided-by-healthcare-at-home-leaves-patients-without-drugs/
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chpi.org.uk/patientsafety/
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BMJ2014;349:g5241.

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http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/14/nhs-eye-operations-private-provider-musgrove
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http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/15/hospital-refuses-publish-report-outsourced-eye-operation-problems
.

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http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/oct/17/musgrove-park-hospital-eye-surgeries-taunton-somerset
;
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/16/leaked-report-cataract-surgery-revealed
.

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BMJ2014;348:g4184.

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http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21603078-why-thieves-love-americas-health-care-system-272-billion-swindle
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http://www.bmj.com/press-releases/2013/03/12/bmj-investigation-finds-gp-conflicts-interest-“rife”-commissioning-boards
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http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/commissioning/commissioning-topics/ccgs/revealed-one-in-five-gps-on-ccg-boards-has-financial-interest-in-a-current-provider/20004369.article
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http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/11508955.Privatised_NHS_service_decision_is_under_review/
.

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http://www.healthinvestor.co.uk/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=3617
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http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-02-08/health/bs-bz-hancock-orthopod-mris-20110208_1_ct-mri-scans-maryland-law
;
http://www.managedcaremag.com/content/enduring-temptation-physician-self-referral
.

27
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/white_collar/health-care-fraud
.

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BMJ2009;338:b1421; the House of Commons Health Committee had concluded that lack of data made an assessment of the programme impossible, and in July 2007 the Healthcare Commission could not report on quality of care because English ISTCs failed to return and comply with Hospital Episode Statistics data requirements. Pollock and Kirkwood based their conclusions on information obtained in Scotland. For more information about the ISTC programme see Leys, Colin & Player, Stewart. 2008.
Confuse and Conceal,
London: Merlin Press.

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http://www.nhsforsale.info/database/impact-database/less-fair/cherry-picking.html
;
http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2011/06/14/5899/
.

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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/fec81b5c-0bef-11e2-8e06-00144feabdc0,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2Ffec81b5c-0bef-11e2-8e06-00144feabdc0.html%3Fsiteedition%3Duk&siteedition=uk&_i_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nhsforsale.info%2Fdatabase%2Fimpact-database%2Fless-fair%2Fcherry-picking.html#axzz2l5rooPsl
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http://www.nhsforsale.info/database/impact-database/less-fair/cherry-picking.html
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https://sites.google.com/site/nhsfuture/Home/debunking-the-myths/myth-10
.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/nhs/11053982/Superior-private-health-is-a-myth.html#disqus_thread

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/6611887/The-doctor-who-died-as-a-result-of-Labours-ISTCs.html
.

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/feb/24/breast-implant-scandal-patients-nhs
.

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http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/nov/28/cosmetic-surgery-millionaire-offshore-firm
.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2234621/Faulty-breast-implant-firm-plunges-bankruptcy--avoid-paying-millions-1-700-victims.html
.

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Ibid.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9334459/Breast-implant-scandal-has-cost-taxpayer-3m.html
.

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http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/gps-lose-out-on-apms-contracts-despite-scoring-higher-than-private-firms/10970653.article#.VD4T6mIayK0
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