(UK healthcare) Radical NHS reforms to go ahead

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Source: The Guardian

Andrew Lansley, the health secretary, announced today that the government will push ahead with radical plans to shake up the NHS – the biggest shift in power and accountability in its 62-year history – despite opposition from almost every part of the health service.

Among those raising the alarm in the 6,000 responses to the white paper – about the size and scale of the planned reforms – were the Royal College of GPs, trade unions, and the respected health thinktank the King's Fund.

The British Medical Association described the timetable for the reforms as "foolish" and warned that patient care could suffer as a result. Lansley said critics' claims were unfounded.

"We are going to have tight financial control, we are going to continuously improve the quality of service that we give to patients and we are also creating space for this new devolved decision-making coming from the bottom up," he told the BBC.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/dec/15/nhs-reforms-health-andrew-lansley

[Pab Sungenis]

1. When the hell are the LibDems

going to come to their senses, oust Clegg, and bring down this government?

[xchrom]

2. You gotta wonder the fallout from this will be like.

Neo-liberals have spread like a cancer - here and europe.

[No Elephants]

4. Neo liberals seem very like conservatives

Hard to distinguish between a plutonomy lovin' conservative and plutonomy lovin' neoliberal

Hard to distinguish between a corporatist Republican and a corporatist Democrat, too.

I got them "can't hardly distinguish" blues.


Going on since St Ronnie. As we can now assess, it's been a resounding success for the top 2% and still going strong. (How you like rhem latest tax cuts?)

Plutonomy. Love it or stop it.







"Neoliberalism describes a market-driven<1> approach to economic and social policy based on neoclassical theories of economics that stresses the efficiency of private enterprise, liberalized trade and relatively open markets, and therefore seeks to maximize the role of the corporate sector in determining the political and economic priorities of the state.

The term "neoliberalism" has also come into wide use in cultural studies to describe an internationally prevailing ideological paradigm that leads to social, cultural, and political practices and policies that use the language of markets, efficiency, consumer choice, transactional thinking and individual autonomy to shift risk from governments and corporations onto individuals and to extend this kind of market logic into the realm of social and affective relationships.<2>

Policy implications
Neoliberalism seeks to transfer control of the economy from public to the private sector,<3> under the belief that it will produce a more efficient government and improve the economic health of the nation.<4> The definitive statement of the concrete policies advocated by neoliberalism is often taken to be John Williamson's<5> "Washington Consensus", a list of policy proposals that appeared to have gained consensus approval among the Washington-based international economic organizations (like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank)."

more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism

[xchrom]

5. bears to be repeated --

'and therefore seeks to maximize the role of the corporate sector in determining the political and economic priorities of the state.'

often.

[uberblonde]

3. Remember when they said the same thing about HMOs?

And we all know how well that turned out.