NHS - Mixed articles

[Karma]

Do we want our NHS to be like this at the whim of financiers & insurers

American health insurance horrors
baselinescenario.com/2009/07/27/health-insurance-innovation

When Insurers Put Profits Between Doctor and Patient
www.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/health/views/06chen.html

Paul Krugman: Health Care Horror Stories
economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2008/04/paul-krugman-he.html

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Why markets can’t cure healthcare
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/why-markets-cant-cure-healthcare

Paul Burstow writes… A few facts about the NHS
www.libdemvoice.org/?p=22806

How the NHS can save Lots Of Money!
www.truthwillout.co.uk/2010/06/how-the-nhs-can-save-lots-of-money

Parts of the NHS are second rate
liberalengland.blogspot.com/2011/01/parts-of-nhs-are-second-rate.html

St georges nurses vow to defend the NHS
solidaritymagazine.org/2011/01/st-georges-nurses-vow-to-defend-the-nhs

St George’s Hospital staff protest over changes to NHS
www.wandsworthguardian.co.uk/news/8780552.Hospital_staff_protest_over_changes_to_NHS

Health Care: The Disquieting Truth
www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/sep/30/health-care-disquieting-truth/

Cost of hospital visits jumps as ThedaCare and Affinity implement new rates
www.postcrescent.com/article/20110118/APC0101/101180442/Cost-of-hospital-visits-jumps-as-ThedaCare-and-Affinity-implement-new-rates#ixzz1BOLdLKic

The Future of the NHS
sites.google.com/site/nhsfuture/Home

Defending the NHS
jjarichardson.blogspot.com/2011/04/defending-nhs.html

The vultures circle: private equity and the NHS
www.cwatch.webbler.co.uk/?lid=3961

Health and the NHS
www.greenparty.org.uk/policies/nhs_2010.html

A summer to save the NHS
righttowork.org.uk/2011/05/a-summer-to-save-the-nhs

Cuts will be 50 per cent higher, NHS bosses told
srmorrison.wordpress.com/2011/04/30/cuts-will-be-50-per-cent-higher-nhs-bosses-told/

Nick Clegg 'has broken his promises over hospital he vowed to protect'
www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23924536-nick-clegg-has-broken-his-promises-over-hospital-he-vowed-to-protect.do

Failing doctors 'not held to account'
www.politics.co.uk/news/health/failing-doctors-not-held-to-account--$21387096.htm

Union attacks plan to cut jobs at a West Midlands NHS Trust
www.birminghammail.net/news/top-stories/2011/01/21/union-attacks-plan-to-cut-jobs-at-a-west-midlands-nhs-trust-97319-28032441

The Howard Elston Report: ‘NHS Patients To Operate On Each Other’
www.thebirminghampress.com/2011/01/17/the-howard-elston-reportnhs-patients-to-operate-on-each-other/

Fury after private health firm with close Tory links wins £53million prison hospitals contract
www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/02/06/fury-after-private-health-firm-with-close-tory-links-wins-53million-prison-hospitals-contract-115875-22901987/

Arrests show the cynical reality of the NHS 'listening exercise'
www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/niki-seth-smith/arrests-show-cynical-reality-of-nhs-listening-exercise


Legal basis of NHS to be abolished
www.dutytoprovide.net/2011/06/09/legal-basis-of-nhs-threatened


Our safety at stake?
nhsvault.blogspot.com/2011/08/our-safety-at-stake.html

[Karma]

The choices patients make
abetternhs.wordpress.com

UK healthcare costs to soar!
abetternhs.wordpress.com/2010/09/15/uk-healthcare-costs-to-soar

The Political Economy of Health Care: A clinical perspective
abetternhs.wordpress.com/2010/09/01/the-political-economy-of-health-care-a-clinical-perspective

Patients not Profits. How Markets dehumanise health.
abetternhs.wordpress.com/patients-not-profits-how-markets-dehumanise-health

NHS efficiency savings without the privatisation
abetternhs.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/nhs-efficiency-savings-without-the-privatisation

Half of London’s hospitals to close(?)
abetternhs.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/half-of-londons-hospitals-to-close



A letter to your MP about the Health Bill
abetternhs.wordpress.com/2011/08/01/mpletter

House of Lords briefing paper 3 Peers should vote for amendment 3 on 2.11.2011
abetternhs.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/briefing-3/



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Labour and NHS Funding
torylies.blogspot.com/2011/03/labour-and-nhs-funding.html

Can we trust Clegg on the NHS?
torylies.blogspot.com/2011/05/can-we-trust-clegg-on-nhs.html

Lansley's Phantom Listening Meetings
torylies.blogspot.com/2011/05/lansleys-phantom-listening-meetings.html

LibDems get tough
torylies.blogspot.com/2011/05/libdems-get-tough.html

[Karma]

Surgeon's private firm is paid £630,000... to treat patients from his own NHS waiting list
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1347575/Surgeons-private-firm-paid-630-000--treat-patients-NHS-waiting-list.html

Fury over 'cheapskate' NHS plan for Indian call centre
www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1343859/Fury-cheapskate-NHS-plan-Indian-centre.html

Do Not Disturb: Fury over nurses’ uniforms that ban patients from trying to speak to them
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2030929/Do-Not-Disturb-Fury-nurses-uniforms-ban-patients-trying-speak-them.html




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Half of NHS cuts in frontline posts, nursing leaders claim
www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8441391/Half-of-NHS-cuts-in-frontline-posts-nursing-leaders-claim.html

Patients are denied high cost drugs by NHS trusts
www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8446782/Patients-are-denied-high-cost-drugs-by-NHS-trusts.html

Private Finance Initiative: hospitals will bring taxpayers 60 years of pain
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/8279974/Private-Finance-Initiative-hospitals-will-bring-taxpayers-60-years-of-pain.html

Axe falls on NHS services
www.telegraph.co.uk/health/7908742/Axe-falls-on-NHS-services.html

Taxpayers will no longer 'bail out' failing NHS hospitals
www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8587176/Taxpayers-will-no-longer-bail-out-failing-NHS-hospitals.html

[Karma]

Health Bill: let’s see some real transparency
falseeconomy.org.uk/blog/health-bill-lets-see-some-real-transparency