New World Order
Time for a New World Order that is not slavery to the US and all that bullshit terrorism nonsense.
I think that it is likely to happen regardless of your responses.
Time for a New World Order that is not slavery to the US and all that bullshit terrorism nonsense.
I think that it is likely to happen regardless of your responses.
Full Spectrum Dominance.
I’ll say it loud and clear:
FUCK OFF YOU FASCIST BASTARDS
Time for the New World Order
That’s the post-Capitalist New World Order (of course)
How on Earth can you have a new world order that is the same as the old world order?
A few recent news articles about the UK’s Conservative and Liberal-Democrat coalition government – the ConDem’s – brutal attack on the National Health Service.
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A quick look at the Right to Request scheme set up by the last Labour government, giving staff the right to ask to form a social enterprise, led to just 20 being established. Very few existing social enterprises were driven by bottom-up demand from staff and in most cases they have voted overwhelmingly to stay in the NHS. The majority of requests were management led, top-down initiatives, where employee engagement was little more than an afterthought. So much so, that Unison called for a free and fair ballot of staff before any new social enterprises were set up.
So how have these existing social enterprises worked out? There’s very little hard evidence of the benefits cited by the government of greater patient choice or more innovation. This pours cold water on government attempts to expand social enterprises, to create in its words, “the largest social enterprise sector in the world’.
The recent Kings Fund report on social enterprises was the result of a survey of a small number of directors and chief executives of social enterprises and foundation trusts rather than staff, as was acknowledged in the report. This also found that some of the aims of social enterprise such as greater staff and client engagement, less bureaucracy and more innovation can be achieved without the upheaval of structural change. Indeed these advantages can be and are demonstrated in many types of organisations and services – public, private and not for profit. They are much more dependent on a culture that promotes and rewards motivated staff, collaborative management and the active involvement of service users.
Even if there was clear evidence that existing social enterprises delivered improvements for patients, the conditions in which they will have to operate in the future have changed dramatically. The first generation of NHS social enterprises were set up when competition was at a minimum. The new breed will be forced to compete in an open market with private companies, under the government’s “any qualified provider” plans. Social enterprises are just another vehicle for the government to drive more competition into the NHS – a move that will ultimately mean patient care will suffer as the race to provide the cheapest service will damage the quality of care.
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Service users doubtful over NHS personal budgets – 8/12/2011 – Community Care
The report follows a poll of professionals by the network, which found social workers and other mental health practitioners were unconvinced that personal health budgets would deliver improvements for service users.
Only a minority of service users surveyed said they would take up a budget, many saying they were confused about what a personal health budget was and were unclear about how it would integrate with similar social care budgets.
This comes with the government planning to roll out personal health budgets from October 2012 following pilots in 68 areas.
The Mental Health Network has urged the government to postpone the roll out, extend the pilot schemes and begin an extensive programme of professional engagement as soon as possible.
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Warnings over staff cuts after negligence costs rise | News | Nursing Times
The NHS Litigation Authority’s annual report showed that the number of clinical negligence claims brought against the NHS rose by 32 per cent in 2010-11, to 8,655. The NHS paid out £863m to claimants last year, up from £787m the year before.
Chris Cox, legal director at the Royal College of Nursing, said the figures were no reflection on the safety of NHS care, and warned that there would be a rise in clinical negligence cases if staffing numbers and skill levels were cut back. “It’s short-sighted to think it is too costly an exercise to maintain this level of staffing”, he told Nursing Times.
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The Audit Commission reports that NHS organisations face “the worst financial situation they have ever experienced”.
Pulse reports that “Private companies are poised to bid to run huge chunks of NHS care across the country”.
Waiting times rise despite David Cameron’s pledges.
A few recent news articles about the UK’s Conservative and Liberal-Democrat coalition government – the ConDem’s – brutal attack on the National Health Service.
Funding crisis looms over NHS / Britain / Home – Morning Star
It found that most trusts were only able to balance their books with financial help in 2010-11.
Sixteen NHS trusts needed £90 million to help them keep on track while cash was also distributed from underspending primary care trusts to those that had overspent.
The public-service watchdog said that although only nine out of the 276 NHS organisations in England were in deficit, six in the south-east, trusts face a challenging 12 months trying to keep on top of a £20 billion efficiency savings target by 2015.
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Related: NHS faces growing financial pressure, says auditor | Healthcare Network | Guardian Professional
PCTs clamour to put entire care pathways out for tender – newsarticle-content – Pulse
NHS East of England plans to auction off £300m of services to GPs, private companies or a combination of the two, in pathways including respiratory and musculoskeletal medicine.
Eight PCTs are now planning to replicate the NHS East of England plans, which Pulse first revealed in March and are backed by an adviser to the Government’s QIPP programme.
Pulse has established that NHS Bassetlaw, NHS Hampshire, NHS Coventry, NHS Brighton and Hove and NHS Outer North East London, a cluster covering four PCTs, are all considering putting entire care pathways out to tender, with several having started discussions with GP commissioners about the move.
NHS Outer North East London said it would tender out entire care pathways and would ‘provide an outline programme of these once prioritised and agreed with GP consortia and existing service providers’. NHS Bassetlaw said it had already awarded tenders for musculoskeletal and dermatology pathways, worth £680,000 and £775,000 respectively, to NHS providers.
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In June, 1,763 people had been waiting for at least 13 weeks for one of 15 diagnostic tests – including MRI and heart scans, ultrasound and colonoscopies – according to Government figures released yesterday. This compares with only 190 in June 2010.
The figures came a month after the Prime Minister personally pledged to keep waiting times low. Health ministers were quick to point to a small month-on-month improvement in June, but with nearly 600,000 people in total waiting for a test to diagnose or exclude a medical condition, June is the worst month of 2011 so far.
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Related: Nine-fold increase in patients waiting for diagnostics » Hospital Dr Number of NHS patients waiting more than six weeks for tests quadruples in one year | Mail Online
BMA calls on every GP to join pensions fight – newsarticle-content – Pulse
The BMA has issued a rallying cry for every GP in the country to join the fight to protect NHS pensions by responding individually to the Department of Health’s ongoing consultation.
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BBC News – Bupa calls for ‘urgent’ action over care home crisis
Ray King, chief executive of medical group Bupa, has called for a “chronic underfunding” of the care homes system to be addressed “urgently”.
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