Monday 24 September 2012

Blackpool South NHS - not safe in their hands


The government’s plans to privatise and fragment our NHS are taking shape in Blackpool South.

Local doctors are forming a Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) for the area. They’re going to get new powers to decide what health services you and your neighbours are able to access and who provides them. [1]

Whether it’s treatment for diabetes, skin conditions, a broken arm or depression, profit-hungry companies like Virgin Care and Serco are circling, ready to bid for contracts by promising to slash costs. [2]

The doctors on your local CCG will be under pressure from the government to hand out contracts to private companies. That could put vital services at risk. [3] But the last thing most doctors want is to carve up our NHS for private profit. Plus, the new CCG has a legal duty to listen to local people. [4]

So right now, we’ve got a big chance to ask local doctors to use their new powers to protect our NHS, not privatise it. Together, we can make sure they hear from hundreds of local people as they make these crucial decisions.

Can you add your name to the petition to your local CCG now?
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/CCG-petition

If you are wondering why Notareargunner is raising this matter in Blackpool, read the article in the Financial Times about SERCO, one of the leech companies making a fortune on Government contracts.
In today’s FT there is a detailed account of criminal tagging and an acerbic remark about the new MoJ’s association with a group calling itself Policy Exchange, and the whole debacle costing the tax payers fortunes whilst making the companies millions with no tangible positive results for the beleaguers non-criminal majority.  Of the two companies, G4S and Serco, one is after the lucrative contract with Blackpool South NHS.  Until they can prove they are an ethical and reliable company there should be no contract with them at all.

Are you going to allow private greed to usurp community need?

Sign the petition at the top and do something for the community.

******Only today listeners to 5Live will have discovered that hundreds of schools have been duped into paying out fortunes for IT equipment that they were thinking was free.  The lack of Close Scrutiny of high priced schemes has cost Blackpool tax payers a fortune, with no improved services.   The poor quality of Councillor suggests that this debacle will go on ad infinitum.  Fortunately there is the internet...

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