Current issues

Richard Taylor MP referred to our report, Is the public shaping the future of their NHS? in a Westminster Hall debate NHS (Co-operation/Competition) on 24 February 2009.

The CCP is to help deliver the supposed benefits of competition. It began operating on 30 January 09 with its consultation on its guidance documents on merger inquiries, conduct inquiries and procurement dispute appeals running from 30 January till 30 April.

What do we need to protect, why and how?

A brief summary of the top-ups debate and the recommendations of the Richards report.

The views of NHS organisations and the news media to the recent change in Government policy concerning patients who want to pay for drugs not available on the NHS.

2008 NHS top-ups a victory for the individual, but what about the rest?

A major new campaign to stop or delay the privatisation of primary care services.

The new model for the NHS in England is defined by choice, and can be argued to be wedded to competition, necessarily leading to private healthcare providers.

Is the NHS truly a national health service, or with the arrival of devolution do we now have four health services?