MPs write document aiming to improve hospitals
2:08pm Tuesday 10th July 2012 in Where I Live By Jim Palmer
MPs write document aiming to improve hospitals
AN ACTION plan outlining the key principals to improve hospitals in south east London has been submitted to the Department of Health by four Tory MPs in Bexley and Bromley days before an administrator is appointed to take over the running of South London Healthcare NHS Trust.
Old Bexley and Sidcup MP James Brokenshire, Bexleyheath and Crayford MP David Evennett, Orpington MP Jo Johnson and Bromley and Chislehurst MP Bob Neill detailed core principle the regime should follow, including protecting frontline services, finding a solution to the “crippling burden” of PFIs, and advancing existing plans to secure Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
Mr Brokenshire said: “While the current dire financial position of the local hospital trust simply isn’t sustainable, the administration provides a significant opportunity to improve local hospital services. This includes giving renewed impetus to plans to secure the future of Queen Mary’s.”
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londonlive
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11:35pm Tue 10 Jul 12
Be clear: The collapse of PFI-financed NHS trusts is exactly what was planned. It is exactly what was hoped for. Private companies will now move in, offer ing 'solutions' at 'no cost to the taxpayer' The NHS will privatise itself with no parliamentary or local debate.
Well done everyone.
Eagles_Man
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11:39am Wed 11 Jul 12
londonlive wrote:The NHS will be privatised? So it should be - the healthcare provision side of it, that is.
Here we go. Conservatives (the aritects of PFI) stepping to say how terrible PFI is, and how we need to protect the NHS from PFI. Unfortunately Blair (a conservative) continued with the PFI principle, so everyone is terrified to clearly and incontrovertibly distance themselves from it and explain it was wrong.
Be clear: The collapse of PFI-financed NHS trusts is exactly what was planned. It is exactly what was hoped for. Private companies will now move in, offer ing 'solutions' at 'no cost to the taxpayer' The NHS will privatise itself with no parliamentary or local debate.
Well done everyone.
It shouldn't matter who delivers the health *services* - private, public, charity or Martian; as long as the state health *insurance* element remains, the care will still be universal and free at the point of delivery.
goldenbroomboy says...
4:59pm Tue 10 Jul 12