Read NHS for Sale: Myths, Lies & Deception Online
Authors: Jacky Davis,John Lister,David Wrigley
59
http://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f1501
.
60
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/jul/29/serco-biggest-company-never-heard-of
.
61
http://www.nhsforsale.info/private-providers/private-provider-profiles-2/serco.html
.
62
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/jul/29/serco-biggest-company-never-heard-of
.
63
http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/public-accounts-committee/news/out-of-hours-gp-service-in-cornwall/
.
64
Ibid; see also
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/may/25/serco-investigated-claims-unsafe-hours-gp
and
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/sep/20/serco-nhs-false-data-gps
.
65
Ibid.
66
http://www.ft.com/fastft/81542/post-81542
.
67
http://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.g1167
.
68
http://www.hsj.co.uk/news/serco-seeks-nhs-help-to-fill-vacancies/5065381.article
.
69
http://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.g1167
.
70
http://www.leftfootforward.org/2014/05/public-want-serco-banned-from-government
-
71
http://www.healthinvestor.co.uk/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=3501
.
72
http://www.theguardian.com/public-leaders-network/2014/apr/10/serco-employees-targets-treated-children-contracts
.
73
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/jul/29/serco-biggest-company-never-heard-of
.
74
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/69c31024-4af1-11e3-8c4c-00144feabdc0.html
.
75
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nhs-services-cut-in-nottingham-after-doctors-quit-rather-than-work-for-private-firm-9931763.html
.
76
Ibid.
77
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/69c31024-4af1-11e3-8c4c-00144feabdc0.html
.
Chapter 9
1
BBC, Andrew Lansley when confronted by a protester, 20 February 2012,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17093082
.
2
10 September 2014,;
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/hospital-emergency-departments-hunt-has-sympathy-for-charging-drunks-9725164.html
;
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2751754/Charge-drunks-end-A-E-Jeremy-Hunt-says-taxpayers-not-foot-bill-people-gone-night-out.html
;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y96OrC4kCc8
.
3
June 2011,
http://www.libdems.org.uk/nick_clegg_speech_how_we_re_protecting_our_nhs
.
http://www.libdemvoice.org/nick-cleggs-speech-on-nhs-reforms-weve-listened-weve-learned-24447.html
4
Bevan, Aneurin. 1952.
In place of fear,
London, Heinemann.
5
http://www.ipsos-mori.com/researchpublications/researcharchive/2939/Britons-are-more-proud-of-their-history-NHS-and-army-than-the-Royal-Family.aspx
.
6
http://www.nextleft.org/2011/04/nhs-makes-socialists-of-us-all-says.html
.
7
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/united-kingdom/cameron-defends-whole-scale-nhs-reform-49611.html
;
http://new.muslimnews.co.uk/newspaper/home-news/exclusive-interview-hunt-denies-support-for-denationalisation-of-nhs/
.
8
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/political/political-news/department-of-health-denies-nhs-privatisation-claims/20007389.article#.VB3dR_ldWHk
.
9
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-24286582
;
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-29094093
.
10
http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/06/03/worried-john-redwood-disowns-his-own-nhs-pamphlet/
.
11
Finkelstein, Daniel. 14 April 2010. ‘The wizard behind Cameron’s little blue book’.
The Times
(London); ‘Profiles of men trying to negotiate a Tory-Lib Dem deal’. BBC News (London). 10 May 2010.
12
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/letwin-nhs-will-not-exist-under-tories-6168295.html
.
13
Jeremy Hunt is also rumoured to have objected to Danny Boyle’s Opening Ceremony for the Olympic Games, in which hundreds of dancing Great Ormond Street nurses celebrated the post-war
creation of the NHS. Hunt is reported to have tried to persuade the director to remove the sections featuring the NHS.
http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2012/09/11/opinion-the-new-health-secretary-and-the-650m-private-healthcare-takeover/
.
14
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/sep/06/jeremy-hunt-in-tray-wipe-smile
or
http://www.gponline.com/gps-need-know-health-secretary-jeremy-hunt/article/1148534
.
15
https://yougov.co.uk/news/2013/11/04/nationalise-energy-and-rail-companies-say-/files/03/78/98/f037898/public/
.
16
For a collection of peers’ and MPs’ quotes in support of the HSC Act listed alongside their interests in the private heath industry
http://socialinvestigations.blogspot.co.uk/p/lords-and-mps-quotes-on-health-and.html
17
http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d2996?sso
=.
18
Muschell. J. 1995. Technical Briefing Note on Privatization in Health, WHO/TFHE/TBN/95.1.
19
BMJ2013;346:f1322.
20
BMJ2013;346:f1608.
21
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/commissioning/85-of-gps-believe-nhs-will-be-privatised-within-ten-years/20007870.article#.VI71z_msWHk
.
23
http://www.nhsforsale.info/privatisation-list.html
.
24
BMJ2013;347:f4476.
25
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25660555
.
26
http://www.unitetheunion.org/news/explosion-in-nhs-sell-off-just-one-year-on-from-governments-changes/
27
BMJ2014;349:g7606
28
Personal communication from John Lister.
29
Personal communication.
30
m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/5866352
.
31
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/jul/18/bain-capital-plasma-resources-uk
.
32
Association of Clinical Pathologists News
Summer 2013,
http://www.pathologists.org.uk/publications.aspx?id=129
.
33
http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2012-13/1164
.
34
Ibid.
35
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/dec/29/cable-hunt-nhs-privatised-plasma
.
36
Association of Clinical Pathologists News,
Summer 2013
http://www.pathologists.org.uk/publications.aspx?id=129
.
37
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/08/britain-private-sector-public-sector-ethics-customers
.
38
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/www.dh.gov.uk/ab/Archive/IRNHSPS/index.htm
.
39
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/sep/30/pathology-labs-takeover-failures
#.
40
http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/?q=node/4105%3f
41
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/exclusive-overcharging-by-outsourcing-giant-serco-costs-nhs-millions-9695342.html
.
42
http://www.gponline.com/exclusive-private-firms-will-run-10-gp-practices-2014/article/1093504
.
43
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/657b30e6-357a-11e3-952b-00144feab7de.html?siteedition=uk#ixzz3MAoIgODZ
.
44
http://www.unison.org.uk/news/unison-fights-the-privatisation-of-primary-care-support-services
.
45
http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2012/09/11/opinion-the-new-health-secretary-and-the-650m-private-healthcare-takeover/
; BMJ2012;344:e2605.
46
BMJ2014;349:g4640.
47
http://www.huntspost.co.uk/news/staff_survey_of_hinchingbrooke_hospital_highlights_employees_concerns_1_3403534
.
48
http://www.nao.org.uk/report/the-franchising-of-hinchingbrooke-health-care-nhs-trust/
;
http://www.hsj.co.uk/news/finance/exclusive-nhs-trust-under-private-management-faces-deficit-again/5069465.article#.U0sNClego8Y
.
49
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Car-park-Hinchingbrooke-Hospital-sold-housing-development/story-22821451-detail/story.html
.
50
https://www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/richard-grimes/why-is-government-preparing-for-dramatic-rise-in-nhs-patients-going-private
;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16337904
.
51
http://www.foundationtrustnetwork.org/news/enterprise-in-the-nhs-given-a-freer-rein/
.
52
https://www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/richard-grimes/why-is-government-preparing-for-dramatic-rise-in-nhs-patients-going-private
.
53
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/sep/19/nhs-hospitals-waiting-time-demand-monitor
.
54
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/apr/16/britain-fewer-hospital-beds-european-oecd
;
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/may/13/cuts-hospital-beds-nhs-false-economy-community-based-services
.
55
BMJ2014;348:g2777.
56
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/21/nhs-brand-private-profits
.
57
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jan/21/nhs-private-firms-may-help-hospital-patient-surge
.
58
Ibid.
59
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2549920/Struggling-NHS-hospitals-face-330m-red-44-cent-predict-debt-end-month.html
.
60
BMJ2012;345:e7510.
61
BMJ2014;349:g5150.
62
http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/francis-maude-unveils-details-10m-mutuals-programme/policy-and-politics/article/1107775
.
63
http://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f4524
.
64
Ibid.
65
Ibid.
66
BMJ2014;348:g2706.
67
https://www.betterasone.co.uk
.
68
BMJ2012;344:e2605.
69
http://saveourpublicservices.co.uk/virgin-keep-out.php
;
http://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2013/11/brixton-protest-against-virgins-takeover-of-nhs-healthcare-services-photos-from-saturdays-flashmob/
;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zQ-2evkKzI
.
70
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-23948457
.
71
http://www.gmb.org.uk/newsroom/nhs-is-preferred-bidder-in-cambridgeshire
;
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-29439924
.
72
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jul/02/cancer-care-nhs-outsourcing-ccgs-unison-virgin
.
73
https://www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/clive-peedell/outsourcing-cancer-care-biggest-and-most-reckless-nhs-privatisation-yet
.
74
Ibid.
75
http://www.chichester.co.uk/news/local/update-235m-orthopaedic-contract-awarded-to-bupa-1-6279559#.VAjXXVUzIk9.twitter
.
76
http://www.bognor.co.uk/news/local/a-e-sos-bupa-csh-contract-a-bad-decision-for-patients-1-6334245#.VC5BPSV-6Rw.twitter
.
77
http://www.coastalwestsussexccg.nhs.uk/domains/coastal-west-sussex-ccg.org.uk/local/media/images/medium/20140826_Declaration_of_Interest_Register_1.pdf
.
78
http://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/summit/2009/speakers/patrick-carter
.
79
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2109907/NHS-fairness-tsar-urged-quit-doctors-conflict-following-799-000-payment-U-S-private-health-giant.html
.
80
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-26175151
.
81
http://4bitnews.com/shh-bits/hypocrisy-sir-stuart-rose-nhs/?utm_content=bufferdebab&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
.
82
http://www.nhsforsale.info/database/impact-database/conflict-of-interest/Monitor.html
.
83
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/11264425/Stephen-Dorrell-MP-faces-calls-to-resign-over-conflict-of-interest.html
.
84
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/david-cameron-stepped-up-plans-2073843
.
85
BMJ2012;344:e2905.
86
https://twitter.com/h_jarman/status/428198335883669505/photo/1
87
BMJ2012;344:e2905;
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2099940/NHS-health-reforms-Extent-McKinsey--Companys-role-Andrew-Lansleys-proposals.html
.
88
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/the-northerner/2014/apr/23/999-call--recreate-jarrow-march-to-protest-at-nhs-privatisation?CMP=twt_gu
.
89
http://yougov.co.uk/news/2013/11/04/nationalise-energy-and-rail-companies-say-/files/03/78/98/f037898/public/
.
90
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/80-per-cent-of-voters-would-pay-more-to-save-the-nhs-from-privatisation-9760941.html
.
91
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/08/britain-private-sector-public-sector-ethics-customers
.
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Chapter 10
1
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1240061/Cameron-fires-starting-gun-election-launches-Tory-Year-Change-campaign.html
.
2
Bexley Times,
‘Possible services cash cut slammed’, 25 February 2009:
http://www.bexleytimes.co.uk/news/possible_services_cash_cut_slammed_1_609395
.
3
Donnelly, L. 2014. ‘Dozens of maternity and A&E units shut’,
Daily Telegraph,
26 October,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/laura-donnelly/11184764/Dozens-of-maternity-and-AandE-units-shut.html
.