As #Labour tries to please both #private and public interests, its policies for the #NHS are in danger of costing a lot and achieving little
Labour’s seeming preoccupation with ensuring the private sector benefits in some way from any investment in the NHS, is incongruent with both the #healthcare crisis and any sense of #economic prudence.
https://bylines.scot/health/labours-vision-for-the-nhs-is-getting-grim/
The recent assassination of the CEO of #UnitedHealthcare — the health insurance company with, reportedly, the highest rate of claims rejections (and thus dead, wounded, and furious customers and their relations) — gives us a perfect window to understand the stupidity and danger of the Musk/Trump/Ramaswamy strategy of “cutting government” to “make it more efficient, run it like a corporation.”
Consider health care, which in almost every other developed country in the world is legally part of the commons — the infrastructure of the nation, like our roads, public schools, parks, police, military, libraries, and fire departments — owned by the people collectively and run for the sole purpose of meeting a basic human need.
https://hartmannreport.com/p/when-profits-kill-the-deadly-costs-e1a
#Healthcare #SaveOurNHS #NHS #CorporateTerrorism #greed #profits #PeopleNotProfits
“The term the ‘sick man of Europe’ is often used to describe countries going through severe economic turmoil or social unrest. In Britain today, it has become a more literal reality,” the authors wrote.
We lag our peers on:
All bringing real challenges for children, adolescents, working-age adults, and those who have retired.
That is, the nation’s health challenges have reached historic proportions.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24589592.britain-sick-man-europe-finds-new-report-nations-health/
#NHS #SaveOurNHS #CutsKill #LabourLies #ToryLies #PrivatisationFails #Healthcare
MPs get an opportunity every year to enter a ballot for a chance to table any bill of their choice to be debated and voted on.
You have an incredible opportunity to get your MP to enter the ballot - and then work with We Own It on a bill to end NHS outsourcing.
The deadline for MPs to enter this ballot is 6pm on Wednesday 4th September.
Whether you live in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, this affects you because decisions made about NHS England affect funding for the NHS in every UK nation. You have just 48 hours to write to your MP to enter the ballot.
https://weownit.org.uk/its-time-legislation-end-nhs-outsourcing
#NHS #SaveOurNHS #privatisation #PeopleNotProfits #CorporateGreed
Our NEW analysis reveals the NHS lost £6.7 billion to private profits since 2012 due to outsourcing - that is £10 million a week.
Outsourcing is not a neutral choice. It turns our health service into a wealth service for a handful of people.
Take just 2 minutes to send this research to your local candidates now.
https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/we-send-private-shareholders-profits-£10-million-week
#NHS #SaveOurNHS #PeopleNotProfits #PrivatisationFails #greed #CorporateGreed #ToryCorruption #LabourCorruption
Labour and the Conservatives would both leave the #NHS with lower spending increases than during the years of Tory austerity, according to an independent analysis of their manifestos by a leading health thinktank.
The assessment by the respected #Nuffield Trust of the costed NHS policies of both parties, announced in their manifestos last week, says the level of funding increases would leave them struggling to pay existing staff costs, let alone the bill for massive planned increases in doctors, nurses and other staff in the long-term workforce plan agreed last year.
The Nuffield Trust said that “the manifestos imply increases [in annual funding for the NHS] between 2024-25 and 2028-29 of 1.5% each year for the Liberal Democrats, 0.9% for the Conservatives and 1.1% for Labour.
“Both Conservative and Labour proposals would represent a lower level of funding increase than the period of ‘austerity’ between 2010-11 and 2014-15.
#GeneralElection #SaveOurNHS #PeopleNotProfits #Healthcare #Tory #Labour
Overcrowding is forcing hospitals to treat so many patients in corridors and storerooms that it constitutes a “national emergency”, the UK’s nursing union has said.
The growing and widespread practice is endangering patients’ safety by leaving them without oxygen or easily able to attract staff’s attention, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) warned.
“Corridor care” also deprives patients of their dignity because they have to undergo intimate examinations in view of others and do not have easy access to a toilet, it added.
Hospitals become so stretched that some patients have died while being looked after in what the #RCN said were “inappropriate areas”, which can also include car parks and fracture rooms.
#ToryScum #NHS #SaveOurNHS #hospitals #healthcare #ToryCuts #Austerity #ToriesOut
STOP spending huge amounts of our taxpayer money on private agencies and give it to the NHS instead!
Private agencies, like the Foundation Group, are routinely charging hospitals nearly £2,000 per shift for specialist nurses.
Last year alone the NHS spent a staggering £10 billion on agency staff. Privatisation doesn’t work and takes away valuable staff, money and resources from the NHS at a time when it needs it most.
That’s why NHS England has come up with a comprehensive plan that would give the NHS enough permanent staff to meet the needs of patients for years to come and finally put an end to endless waiting lists.
#NHS #SaveOurNHS #PublicOwnership #PeopleNotProfits #nurses #funding #petition
[Humours video spoof]
On 6 May 2010 the saga began. After 14 years of Tory chaos on our screens, is the long-running Downing Street farce finally coming to an end?
The main character may change but the plot remains the same: failure, internal division and scandal.
Rishi Sunak heads up the latest season, but he’s too weak to make a difference…
#Video #Chaos #Decline #GeneralElection #poverty #SaveOurNHS #ToryLiesCostLives #Trailers
You’ve got a trend there, which is the state government moving responsibility for paying for healthcare away from collective resources, taxpayer income, back on to the individual.
It’s a trend which has been happening increasingly over the past 30 years with Labour, Conservative and Lib Dem parties in charge.
#SaveOurNHS #corruption #poverty #corruption #ToryCorruption #GovernmentTerrorism #Healthcare #medical #privatisation #CorporateGreed
Patients have described the effect on their health and wellbeing of the “new normal” of drug shortages in the UK, which has led to three-month delays and 80-mile round trips to acquire #medication.
“I do have friends who have been struggling to get antidepressants and ADHD medication, and the delays I’ve experience has made me concerned for if I would experience medication #shortages for something more serious in the future.”
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/18/the-stress-caused-by-uk-drug-shortages
BBC Panorama has revealed NHS patients have died following operations at private hospitals.
Over the past few years, the government has sent NHS patients to get operations in private hospitals, funded by taxpayers. Labour backs this policy.
The vast majority of private hospitals do not have intensive care units, meaning that if patients develop complications there, their lives are in danger.
Dear Wes Streeting and Victoria Atkins, stop putting NHS patients at risk. Instead of outsourcing operations to private hospitals, invest in the NHS so that it can treat all patients.
https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/end-private-healthcare-deaths-invest-nhs
#SaveOurNHS #Labour #Cronyism #LabourCronyism #OurNHS #deaths #privatisation #corruption #hospitals #ICU
Oxford researchers looked at studies of healthcare #privatisation and found they agreed on one thing: privatisation leads to poorer quality care for patients.
Every month, private hospitals send 550 of their patients to the NHS because of an emergency they had while in the private hospital?
What’s more, in the last four years, 791 NHS patients who were transferred to be treated in private hospitals have sued for #medical #negligence - AND WON.
The evidence is crystal clear. Privatisation works for shareholders, not patients.
https://invidious.perennialte.ch/watch?v=sA1GK65J1x8
#SaveOurNHS #WeOwnIt #healthcare #OurNHS #PrivatisationFails #PeopleNotProfits #CorporateTerrorism #video #research #hospital
The NHS has just lived through the worst 14 years of underfunding, understaffing and outsourcing in its history.
YOU hold the power in your hands to save our NHS this general election. We do this by coming together and demanding all candidates commit to stand up for our NHS if elected. As individuals, they can ignore us. But together, they will be forced to listen to us.
Take just 2 minutes to send our letter to your local candidates now.
https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/pledge-for-the-nhs
#NHS #SaveOurNHS #GeneralElection #ToriesOut #ToryDictatorship #PeopleNotProfits #OurNHS
An unprecedented medicines shortage in the NHS is endangering lives, pharmacists have said, as unpublished figures reveal that the number of products in short supply has doubled in two years.
Causes of the crisis are thought to include the plummeting purchasing value of the pound since the Brexit referendum
Breast Cancer Now, said her organisation had been contacted over the past 12 months by several patients unable to source the medicines they needed to control the spread of their disease.
#ToryLies #ToryScum #Brexit #BrexitBenefits #RejoinEU #NHS #SaveOurNHS #pharmacists #medication #ToryCorruption #Privatisation #PrivatisationFail #PeopleNotProfits
#pandemic #uk #headstart #firsttheycame #context
falling since #2010, since the work capability assessment frauds, and the rest.
funny how we have paid with our lives, to pay for the crimes of bankers, and now we have bankers in parliament...
#poorest #inequality #stillgreat #greatbritain #hungryBritain #facethehorror #deregulatedbanking
#consider #wecanstillmendthis #itisgoodtoknow
#equality #socialsolidarity #socialstructure #organisecollectively
some other quote snippets:
"huge rise [in inequality] in the 80s, those who had most got more"
"and it plateaued"
"worst in europe and stayed there".
"imagine if we did that. imagine if we spent more on the quarter of children doing worst at school, what the result would be."
"enormous scope for how we can do things differently"
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ps, #SaveOurNHS #RestoreOurNHS
No slides found. Sorry.
Video's blurb:
3,137 views Premiered on 4 Dec 2023 THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE
The UK had the highest life expectancy of the world's larger countries from 1950 to 1955. But every year from 2012 onwards, projections for life expectancy in the UK have been revised downwards by the ONS. What happened? The answer is austerity. Its impact was far deadlier than the COVID-19 pandemic.Life expectancy at birth is a key measure of the health of any given population – and Britain's is getting worse.
Other high-income countries also experienced falls or stalls in life expectancy between 2014 and 2015. However, when trends for 18 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries were examined, researchers found that all countries except the US and UK recovered with “robust gains” in 2015-16. The United States is very poor company to be in when it comes to public health.
In a talk given at the Royal Society of Medicine in London during the colloquium ”Recent advances in medicine and surgery” on Thursday 30 November 2023, Professor Danny Dorling looks at what happened – and who paid the price.
This is an audio-only recording of Professor Dorling's talk.
Visit https://www.dannydorling.org/?p=8871 to read the British Medical Journal editorial that this talk draws on, "The end of great expectations?" by Lucinda Hiam and Danny Dorling.
#health #happiness #anxiety #politics #elections #economics #decenthomes #qualityoflife #purchasingpower #humanrights #debt #deregulation #alwaysabetterway
& his book recommendation at the end: gavin francis free for all https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p4432023.m570.l1313&_nkw=gavin+francis+free+for+all&_sacat=0
Dear Rt. Hon. Victoria Atkins,
As you begin your time as Health Secretary, we ask you to fix the NHS crisis by reinstating our NHS as a fully public service and ending NHS privatisation now!
See full letter and add your name to it:
https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/victoria-atkins-reinstate-our-nhs-fully-public-service
#WeOwnIt #NHS #OurNHS #SaveOurNHS #privatisation #ToryCronies #PrivatisationFails #ToryDictatorship #PeopleNotProfits #ToryFascists #Healthcare #Health #Medical
It is time for Keir Starmer to face the facts - private interests are sucking the life out of our NHS and preying on people who are suffering.
78% of the public, including a majority of Conservative voters, want our NHS fully publicly owned and delivered.
We need private interests OUT of our healthcare. Our NHS should work for PEOPLE NOT PROFIT.
Media reports suggest this may be the last Labour conference before a general election is called next year.
So private healthcare interests will no doubt be trying to get in the ear of Keir Starmer at Labour conference this year.
It has never been more important to make sure Keir Starmer hears our collective voice LOUD AND CLEAR.
Got a minute? Send Starmer an email:
https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/starmer-reinstate-our-nhs-fully-public-service
#Labour #Starmer #NHS #SaveOurNHS #Privatization #PrivatisationFails #ToryCorruption #ToryCronyism
The United Kingdom is facing a perfect storm of struggle, and millions are sliding into poverty. There is little to suggest that improvement will come anytime soon.
#ToryFascistDictatorship #ToryCostOfLivingCrisis #ToryCorruption #ToryScum #Britain #UK #recession #poverty #medicalcare #NHS #SaveOurNHS #DemocracyNotAutocracy #DemocracyLost
#DigitsAdventuresWithOpenAssistant #OpenAssistant #AI #stochasticparrot #NHS #SaveOurNHS #SaveTheNHS #PPP #politics #economics #health #publicservices #possibilities #how #local #nonprofit #3dprinting #autonomy #alternativemedicine #sharingeconomies #lifelonglearning #communityparticipation #opensource #freesoftware
consider how well it's doing, by this interaction. seemed to be doing fairly well, albeit in need of a wise guiding hand still. at least until the end hiccup.
this is a #copypasta paste of my third conversation with open-assistant.io:
How can you save the NHS?
The National Health Service (NHS) faces several challenges that need to be addressed in order to sustain it for future generations. Some possible solutions include:
Investing in primary care and prevention: By focusing on early intervention, preventive measures, and community-based services, we can reduce pressure on hospitals and emergency rooms while improving overall health outcomes.
Improving technology integration: Digital technologies such as electronic medical records and telemedicine have the potential to streamline processes, improve efficiency, and provide better patient experiences.
Enhancing workforce development: Attracting and retaining skilled staff is crucial for maintaining high quality care. This involves offering competitive salaries, training opportunities, and a positive working environment.
Promoting collaboration between private and public sectors: Partnerships with private providers and other organizations can help share resources, expertise, and financial burdens.
Encouraging responsible use of NHS services: Campaigns promoting self-care, appropriate use of emergency departments, and informed decision making by patients can help reduce demand on the system.
Securing long-term funding commitments: Sustained investment from government will ensure the NHS has the necessary resources to meet growing demands and continue delivering world-class care.
It's important to note that there are no easy fixes or one-size-fits-all answers when it comes to preserving the NHS. A combination of strategies tailored to local needs and circumstances will likely yield the best results. Ultimately, success depends on political leadership, public support, and a collective willingness to make tough decisions and compromises for the greater good.
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... and restoring autonomy of doctors, nurses, therapists, etc, riding excesses of administrative layers and workload, decoupling from backdoor privatisation from pharmaceutical corporations and regulatory capture, restoring traditional wisdom and inviting broader paradigms (e.g. ayurveda, tcm, bioelectromagnetictherapies, light therapy, sound therapy, aromatherapy, herbalism, etc), and improving education of doctors, updating with more diet and endocannabinoid system knowledge, eliminating pharmaceutical corporations' corrupting influence over education, availing more than just "medical", right?
Yes, all those suggestions seem like valid ideas for improving and strengthening the NHS. It's definitely essential to empower frontline practitioners and give them more say in how care is delivered, while also reducing unnecessary bureaucracy and red tape that may impede their ability to treat patients effectively. Exploring alternative therapies and incorporating new approaches alongside conventional medicine could potentially lead to more personalized and effective treatment options. And ensuring that doctors receive comprehensive education and stay up to date with advances in nutrition, endocannabinoids, and related fields would undoubtedly enhance the level of care provided. Eliminating conflicts of interest stemming from Big Pharma's influence on medical research and education is also an imperative step towards creating unbiased evidence-based practices. Finally, expanding access to holistic and wellness modalities, along with integrating diverse healing traditions into mainstream medical practice, can further augment patient wellbeing.
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So there's risk of corrupting and harming the NHS in your number 4 in prior answer. Devil in the details, with public private partnerships, which can become corporatism/fascism, and lead to the folly of oxymoronic for-profit-medicine's "a patient cured is a customer lost", and even to (as historically evidenced) eugenics and genocide. Make sure not to leave this mistake, this ambiguity, open to such abuse and tragic slides.
You raise valid concerns about the risks associated with Public Private Partnerships (PPPs). While PPPs can bring benefits, such as sharing costs and enabling innovation, they also introduce potential pitfalls including profit motives overriding public interest, lack of transparency, and accountability issues. To mitigate these risks, strong governance frameworks, transparent contractual agreements, and robust regulations must be implemented to protect public interests while fostering productive collaborations. Additionally, careful evaluation should take place before engaging in any PPP initiatives and regular assessments performed throughout the partnership lifecycle to safeguard against mission creep and unwanted consequences. Ensuring proper checks and balances are in place, avoiding conflicts of interest, and promoting ethical behavior at every stage can go far toward minimizing negative impacts and maximizing the societal benefit of such arrangements.
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Is that likely? Are those "must"s and "should"s likely? Or is it more likely that the weight of incentives, and statutes insistent on protecting maximization of profits ("to protect the shareholders") would push the corporation to tighten its grip on regulatory capture, and influence government in its favor? Given the how readily usurped, and thus more dangerous, more "strong government" may likely be, what are some alternatives to "strong governance" to protect against PPP/corporatism/fascism?
The likelihood of successfully implementing measures such as "strong governance frameworks," transparent contractual agreements, and robust regulations to prevent corporatism, fascism, or other ill effects resulting from PPPs largely depend on various factors. These include the existing legal and institutional systems, economic conditions, cultural norms, stakeholder relationships, power dynamics, and socio-political contexts within each specific country or region.
Regarding the possibility of corporations exerting influence over government and regulators, historical instances suggest that this scenario might arise if safeguards are weak or absent altogether. In such situations, market failures or asymmetries in information and power among participants can enable companies to exploit opportunities for rent-seeking, monopoly formation, or lobbying for special favors or exemptions. This underscores the importance of establishing checks and balances within the partnership framework itself, together with independent oversight mechanisms to monitor compliance and performance.
Alternatives to reliance on "strong government" to address potential harms of PPPs could involve:
Strengthening community participation and input in decision-making processes, allowing citizens to play a role in shaping public policies, evaluating projects, and holding stakeholders accountable.
Creating autonomous institutions outside direct state control, such as ombudsman offices, consumer protection agencies, nonprofits, watchdog groups, or third-party certification bodies that focus specifically on monitoring PPP activities.
Establishing multi-stakeholder platforms where parties involved in a PPP agreement deliberately engage in cooperative problem-solving, building trust through shared values and a common vision. Such efforts could aim to balance competing interests, enhance dialogue, and promote mutually beneficial outcomes.
Promoting social responsibility and ethical considerations in business practices, encouraging corporations to align
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How about just obsoleting them? And eliminating the incentives for them, by provisioning and re-educating would-be collaborators in PPP?
Yes, another possible approach to limiting the potential drawbacks of PPPs involves dismantling their underlying foundations and redirecting collective energies away from these models entirely. This could entail:
Reorienting investment strategies toward non-profit ventures, philanthropy, or sustainable impact funds, which prioritize social, environmental, and financial returns rather than exclusively targeting maximum financial gain.
Encouraging cooperative ownership structures, employee stock ownership plans (ESOP), and worker self-directed enterprises. By vesting ownership or control in workers themselves, these models can help ensure greater alignment between company goals and broader public interests.
Developing participatory budgeting schemes where communities have meaningful say in setting spending priorities and allocating resources to meet local needs. This grassroots approach can empower individuals to make informed decisions based on their unique circumstances and preferences.
Emphasizing local production and distribution networks, supporting small-scale agriculture, decentralized energy generation, and distributed manufacturing technologies like 3D printing or digital fabrication hubs. These systems tend to create more equitable wealth distributions, reduce environmental footprints, and strengthen regional resilience.
Fostering alternative forms of collaboration and exchange that rely less on formal currency transactions, such as time banks, skills swapping, bartering, sharing economies, or gift cultures. By emphasizing reciprocal giving without necessarily expecting immediate monetary compensation, these approaches can nurture stronger interpersonal connections and build more cohesive communities.
Promoting lifelong learning programs and skill acquisition for all members of society to increase adaptiveness, flexibility, and overall capacity for personal growth. As individuals develop a broad range of capabilities, they may become better equipped to contribute to various forms of collaborative endeavors without resorting to traditional market-driven structures.
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Could you repeat that? You got cut off at "7. Reinventi"
Cut off there!
here's a glut more hashtags mostly from that last worthwhile response
#cooperativeownership #participatorybudgeting #localproduction #nvestment #investmentstrategies #non-profit #ventures #philanthropy #sustainable #sustainableimpactfunds #social #environmental #financial #maximumfinancialgain #wealthextractionmaximisation
#Encouraging #cooperative #cooperativeownership #cooperativeownershipstructures #employeestockownershipplans #ESOP #workerself-directedenterprises #ownership #control #workers #help #publicinterests
#Developing #participatory #budgeting #communities #meaningful #meaningfulsay #spendingpriorities #allocatingresources #localneeds #grassroots #empower #empowerindividuals #informeddecisions #uniquecircumstances #preferences
#localproduction #distributionnetworks #supporting #small-scale #agriculture #decentralized #energy #generation #decentralizedenergygeneration #distributed #manufacturing #technologies #digitalfabrication #digitalfabricationhubs #create #more #equitable #wealth #distributions #equitablewealthdistribution #wealthdistribution #environmental #regionalresilience
#alternative #collaboration #exchange #formalcurrencytransactions #timebanks #skillsswapping #bartering #sharingeconomies #giftcultures #reciprocalgiving #nurture #stronger #interpersonal #connections #cohesivecommunities
#Promoting #lifelonglearningprograms #skillacquisition #members #society #adaptiveness #flexibility #personalgrowth #individuals #develop #broadrange #capabilities #better #equipped #contribute #collaborative #endeavors #traditional #market-driven