Channel 4 news have passed documents to the Guardian which indicate that under the proposed health reforms, GP practices could be floated on the Stock Market. Also a private health care company is attempting to take control of management, with GP’s having a 20% stake.
guardian.co.uk/society/2011/mar/02/nhs-reform-surgeries-stock-market
Just bumping so peeps can read article.
This is only aimed at England though, the Welsh and Scottish assembly aren’t letting it happen in Scotland and Wales I understand
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Meanwhile from the “Dear god what planet are they on” file …
Thanks for highlighting this Lemongrove - I saw the TV programme back in March about the IHP and move to let GPs make money out of the their NHS work through profits. Seems to me to be very worrying development… despite the government’s response that safeguards will be in place.
The world has gone mad and now England is the maddest, keep on fighting it ladies 38 degrees has a campaign going to save the NHS please take a look and sign up. This group was the group that had the largest impact on saving our woodlands. If we stick together we can make it work.
Molly, the Telegraph article is so slanted that it’s in danger of falling over. The fact that 42 GP’s are in favour when the BMA, The Royal College of General Practitioners, The Royal College of Nursing and six other Unions have all come out in opposition is laughable. Wow, 42 GP’s in favour - sorry how many GP’s are there in the UK?.
Yup - and the bit I have quoted below is very revealing - this small group are not exactly going to bite the hand that feeds are they?!
“The doctors are all heads of recently-formed GPs’ consortia – groups of practices that have joined together to take over responsibility for almost four-fifths of the NHS’s £100 billion budget from 2013.”