Issue Archive
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Fed helps public and medics join in open letter to defend the NHS: More than 100 NHS professionals and patients have added their names to an open letter to Senator John Kerry, who has called for the 'lies' that have recently been circulating in the United States about the UK healthcare system to be refuted.
The Next Stage Review, launched by junior health minister Lord Darzi in 2007, led to the creation of GP led health centres (sometimes referred to as polyclinics) with tenders invited from the private sector. See our summary of the Next Stage Review.
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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.
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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.
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A brief summary of the top-ups debate and the recommendations of the Richards report.
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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.
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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.
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Is the NHS truly a national health service, or with the arrival of devolution do we now have four health services?
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Government’s case for hospital closures may be based on ‘dodgy dossier’
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Foundation hospitals are part of a market driven solution that the government hopes will reduce NHS waiting lists and raise standards of care.
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The new model NHS is a marketplace, where public and private health providers compete for contracts to care for NHS patients. The government believes that competition will raise capacity, choice and standards.
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The new system of payment by results will reward those treating more patients with extra funding...
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Although the rhetoric of ‘choice’ implies patients having a greater variety of health care options from which to choose, the reality is that patients and communities are experiencing a range of closures, cut-backs and disruptions to their local services
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