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Govind Rao

"Expensive folly" keeps mental health unit closed and means 44 patients treated outside... - 0 views

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from heather mental health p3 UK

shared by Govind Rao on 26 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • August 13, 2014
  • An MP has hit out at the “expensive folly” of a privatisation deal which left 44 patients being treated out of county when an 11-year-old health unit was found to be riddled with serious defects. Longreach House in Redruth, which provides in-patient treatment for adults with mental illnesses, was closed in May after an inspection found it did not comply with fire safety measures.
Govind Rao

Secret trade talks threaten public health care | Canadian Union of Public Employees - 0 views

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from heather trade privatization medical tourism cupe

shared by Govind Rao on 05 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • Newly-leaked documents reveal secret trade talks could transform health care from a public service to a for-profit commodity. A leaked discussion paper presented to negotiators at the World Trade Organization promotes health “tourism” and privatization. Canada is one of 22 countries at the table negotiating the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA), along with the European Union.
Irene Jansen

Unions take antisocial view of NHS social enterprises | Healthcare Network | Guardian P... - 1 views

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social enterprise privatization nhs

shared by Irene Jansen on 23 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • The term 'social enterprise' covers a wide range of entities, including groups led by charitable and/or volunteer organisations, as well as collectives of existing managers and staff within the NHS, operating as a limited company that is accountable to the trust from which the company is spun out.
  • Generally speaking, healthcare social enterprises operate on a shared ownership basis – usually among NHS employees, but also including people in the wider community – and have restrictions on how profits are distributed and the disposal of assets. It means NHS trusts commission such services, rather than directly providing services themselves.
  • The foundations of NHS social enterprises were laid down in January 2006 when the government published a paper – Our health, our care, our say: a new direction for community services – which outlined a shift away from care in hospitals and towards community-based healthcare wherever possible.
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  • But after initially supporting the idea of social enterprises when they were first mooted, the trade unions are now broadly against their creation, with Amicus claiming that a two-tier workforce is being created, and with employees transferring from the NHS securing comparable pension arrangements, whilst new staff have no such guarantee.
  • a step towards eventual privatisation
  • unions have launched successful campaigns against some
  • the bizarre situation where health visitors currently working in partnership with children's centres would be involved in bidding against each other to provide the same services
  • there have been a number of social enterprises founded across the NHS
  • health partnerships – as social enterprises are now termed in the NHS
  • So far, 27 trusts have created social enterprises and a further 20 will be created this coming October.
CPAS RECHERCHE

The care workers left behind as private equity targets the NHS | Society | The Observer - 0 views

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privatisation financing soins à domicile home care UK

shared by CPAS RECHERCHE on 14 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • It's one of the many pieces of wisdom – trivial, and yet not – that this slight, nervous mother-of-three has picked up over her 16 years as a support worker looking after people in their homes
  • 100 new staff replacing some of those who have walked away in disgust.
  • Her £8.91 an hour used to go up to nearly £12 when she worked through the night helping John and others. It would go to around £14 an hour on a bank holiday or weekend. It wasn't a fortune, and it involved time away from the family, but an annual income of £21,000 "allowed us a life", she says. Care UK ripped up those NHS ways when it took over.
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  • £7 an hour, receives an extra £1 an hour for a night shift and £2 an hour for weekends.
  • "The NHS encourages you to have these NVQs, all this training, improve your knowledge, and then they [private care companies] come along and it all comes to nothing.
  • Care UK expects to make a profit "of under 6%" by the end of the three-year contract
  • £700,000 operating profit in the six months between September last year and March this year,
  • In 1993 the private sector provided 5% of the state-funded services given to people in their homes, known as domiciliary care. By 2012 this had risen to 89% – largely driven by the local authorities' need for cheaper ways to deliver services and the private sector's assurance that they could provide the answer. More than £2.7bn is spent by the state on this type of care every year. Private providers have targeted wages as a way to slice out profits, de-skilling the sector in the process.
  • 1.4 million care workers in England are unregulated by any professional body and less than 50% have completed a basic NVQ2 level qualification, with 30% apparently not even completing basic induction trainin
  • Today 8% of care homes are supplied by private equity-owned firms – and the number is growing. The same is true of 10% of services run for those with learning disabilities
  • William Laing
  • report on private equity in July 2012
  • "It makes pots of money.
  • Those profits – which are made before debt payments and overheads – don't appear on the bottom line of the health firms' company accounts, and because of that corporation tax isn't paid on them.
  • Some of that was in payments on loans issued in Guernsey, meaning tax could not be charged. Its sister company, Silver Sea, responsible for funding the construction of Care UK care homes, is domiciled in the tax haven of Luxembourg
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