Govt was warned body-parts firm’s bid was unrealistically low
A huge scandal has broken today with the revelation by the Health Service Journal that a private firm with a public contract for disposing of clinical waste has been unable […]
Tag Archives: efficiency
Video: McDonald on the scandal of the £2bn East Coast Rail bail-out
Labour’s excellent Shadow Transport Secretary, Middlesbrough MP Andy McDonald, has issued a strong video statement on the government’s £2 billion bail-out of the failed East Coast rail franchise – and on […]
Video: Hunt still planning #NHS Professionals sell-off. Help stop him
Even though the government loves to blame ‘agency staff costs’ for many of the troubles in our NHS, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt is still planning to sell NHS Professionals – by […]
What #PaulNuttall doesn’t want you to know he thinks of the #NHS – in his own words
Great find tonight by @Rachael_Swindon, who managed to find an archived copy of an article that UKIP leader Paul Nuttall wrote a couple of years ago – and published on […]
2 more hospitals considering private ownership
Reblogged from CCGWatch: The SKWAWKBOX blog last month covered the betrayal of the country by LibDem peers who voted through the government’s ‘section 75‘ measures designed to parcel up the NHS for […]
Govt’s twisted view of NHS staffing – and 2 concrete examples
Depending how the rest of the day goes, this may be my last post of 2012. So let me briefly take the opportunity to thank everyone who’s visited my blog […]
If you let the fox into the chicken coop: profit & ‘efficiency’ in the NHS
A couple of news stories have caught my eye over the past few days, because they’ve confirmed developments in the NHS that I’ve predicted in this blog as well as […]
A rock and a hard place: cartels, low morale, FOIs – and government strategy on the NHS
I had an interesting chat with my wife last night. She’s a nurse, and I was giving her the latest update on the government-sanctioned cartel of NHS trusts in the […]