Evidence on the crisis in NHS
and Government Plans - some facts and figures
The NHS Federation
http://nhsfunding.info/ including:
- list of failed contracts with
private health companies, and the resulting consequences
- info on closed A&E's and 40% of
Maternity Units due to hospitals being overcrowded
- list of Royal Colleges, Patient
Groups, Unions, Think Tanks, Associations, Select Committee's, Unions & the Government's own task
force on mental health - who have repeatedly warned the Government
of the dangers of it's deliberate
policy of under-funding the NHS and Social Care
- record breaking figures
– five-fold rise in just two
years, of patients waiting more than 2 hours to be transferred from
ambulance to hospital: lowest income rise for NHS since 1950's:
unprecedented staff and GP shortages, highest published figures of
patients delayed in hospital
- a new study published in the Journal
of the Royal Society of Medicine in Feb - linking an unprecedented
rise in mortality in England and Wales to cuts to the NHS and
social care
CHPI – Centre for Health
and the Public Interest - an independent non-party think
tank https://chpi.org.uk/ including:
- the Sustainability and
Transformation Plans - a critical assessment of the Government's
current plan to reorganise the NHS: reduce funding by £22b by
2020, create 44 areas in England with no regard for how existing
organisations work together ie
hospitals, clinics etc and the enforced
sell off of NHS buildings and land
- Patient Safety in Private Hospitals
– with the underfunding/ overcrowding of NHS hospitals,
business is booming for Private Hospitals. The NHS pays a premium
for each patient sent, 28% of patients in private hospitals are now
NHS, but 6000 patients a year are admitted to NHS hospitals from
private hospitals. Data on patient care is not collected by an
independent body and is officially rated 'poor' by the
CQC. Private hospitals don't employ
medical staff, but use Bank staff so post
operative care is left to a Resident Medical Officer,
typically a Junior Dr, who will usually be monitoring over 40 beds,
with no on site Specialist to turn to, and usually no access to
intensive care beds if a patient's condition deteriorates
Full list of MPs with
connections to Private Health Companies
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/selling-nhs-profit-full-list-4646154
Health Campaigns Together
– umbrella organisation for most of the Health
Campaigns in England, for up to date News and information http://www.healthcampaignstogether.com/
Professor Allyson Pollock,
co-author of the NHS Reinstatement Bill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz5dl9fhj7o
TED talk on the abolition of NHS with latest figures from American
Institute of medicine re fraud, unnecessary admin costs,
overpricing
Report on the myth that people
living longer are causing the NHS to be unsustainable
https://www.sochealth.co.uk/2016/11/14/myth-demographic-time-bomb/
Keep Our NHS Public
https://keepournhspublic.com/ a wealth
of information, KONP are briefing Cllrs and other bodies on the
Governments Plans
http://www.savelewishamhospital.com/ Our local campaign, working together with KONP, The NHS
Reinstatement Bill Campaign and many others – also
briefing Cllrs, attending Local Authority Health Scrutiny Meetings,
Trust and CCG Board meetings
Gillian Lewis (SLHC steering Group) please
email for concise notes on how the Health and Social Care Act
(2012) is dismantling and privatising the NHS gillianlewis@ntlworld.com March 2017