For immediate release (27th February 2018)
Councillors warned new Accountable Care Organisations will herald the end of the NHS as we know it.
Councillors are to be asked to rethink their agreement to setting up a new way of organising health and social care in Brighton and Hove. The question, to the Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee, held in public on February 28th at 4pm, Hove Town Hall,[1] quotes Professor Stephen Hawking who says, “ACOs are an attack on the fundamental principles of the NHS.”[2]
HOSC set up a panel to scrutinise Sustainability and Transformation Plans but that hasn’t met since September 2017. STP “Footprints” are now being used as the means of introducing Accountable Care Organisations or Systems. These bundle up health and social care services into single, fixed budget contracts, which can then be put out to tender. Policies for more integration have become entangled in this centrally-driven, major re-organisation, which critics fear will lead to an American-styled privatised system. [3]
Dr. Carl Walker, of Sussex Defend the NHS said, “ACOs will do the opposite of their title – they will further remove NHS and social care from democratic control, and the NHS from being a universal service, free at the point of delivery. Both the Labour and Green Parties are opposed to the introduction of ACOs, and we expect our council to put the brakes on this sinister development.”
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Contacts: Dr Carl Walker 07809479114 [email protected]
Janet Sang 07847144291/ 01273562139
[email protected]
[email protected],
http://defendthenhssussex.weebly.com
[1] https://present.brighton-hove.gov.uk/Published/C00000911/M00006671/$$Supp29775dDocPackPublic.pdf
[2] https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no-americanisation-of-our-nhs-stop-the-acos-full-public-scrutiny-now
[3] https://www.gponline.com/dont-give-practice-contracts-acos-warns-gpc-chair/article/1454566
Councillors warned new Accountable Care Organisations will herald the end of the NHS as we know it.
Councillors are to be asked to rethink their agreement to setting up a new way of organising health and social care in Brighton and Hove. The question, to the Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee, held in public on February 28th at 4pm, Hove Town Hall,[1] quotes Professor Stephen Hawking who says, “ACOs are an attack on the fundamental principles of the NHS.”[2]
HOSC set up a panel to scrutinise Sustainability and Transformation Plans but that hasn’t met since September 2017. STP “Footprints” are now being used as the means of introducing Accountable Care Organisations or Systems. These bundle up health and social care services into single, fixed budget contracts, which can then be put out to tender. Policies for more integration have become entangled in this centrally-driven, major re-organisation, which critics fear will lead to an American-styled privatised system. [3]
Dr. Carl Walker, of Sussex Defend the NHS said, “ACOs will do the opposite of their title – they will further remove NHS and social care from democratic control, and the NHS from being a universal service, free at the point of delivery. Both the Labour and Green Parties are opposed to the introduction of ACOs, and we expect our council to put the brakes on this sinister development.”
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Contacts: Dr Carl Walker 07809479114 [email protected]
Janet Sang 07847144291/ 01273562139
[email protected]
[email protected],
http://defendthenhssussex.weebly.com
[1] https://present.brighton-hove.gov.uk/Published/C00000911/M00006671/$$Supp29775dDocPackPublic.pdf
[2] https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no-americanisation-of-our-nhs-stop-the-acos-full-public-scrutiny-now
[3] https://www.gponline.com/dont-give-practice-contracts-acos-warns-gpc-chair/article/1454566
For immediate release (27th February 2018)
Will local GPs’ despair be heard by the commissioners of health services?
The Brighton and Hove CCG will report on its latest plans to a public event called “You Said, We Did” (February 28th, 1.30pm at Brighthelm Centre). That event should be an opportunity to address the causes of the tragic inadequacies highlighted in a survey of local GPs reported last week in the Brighton press. But supporters of Sussex Defend the NHS suspect this will be another whitewash, in which the accumulated effects of underfunding hospitals and “race to the bottom” outsourcing are overlooked.
Janet Sang of Sussex Defend the NHS told our reporter, “The CCG and Brighton and Hove Council have got caught up in a fantasy where they claim the integration of health and social care will cancel out the devastating effects of cuts to our public services. That’s nonsense: 400,000 older people were removed from receiving social care in the UK between 2010 and 2015, and even more people are now in need. We need our representatives to fight tooth and nail for fully-funded, publicly-provided health and social care.”
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Contacts: Janet Sang 07847144291/ 01273562139
[email protected]
[email protected]
http://defendthenhssussex.weebly.com
https://twitter.com/SussexDefendNHS
https://www.facebook.com/SussexDefendTheNHS
Will local GPs’ despair be heard by the commissioners of health services?
The Brighton and Hove CCG will report on its latest plans to a public event called “You Said, We Did” (February 28th, 1.30pm at Brighthelm Centre). That event should be an opportunity to address the causes of the tragic inadequacies highlighted in a survey of local GPs reported last week in the Brighton press. But supporters of Sussex Defend the NHS suspect this will be another whitewash, in which the accumulated effects of underfunding hospitals and “race to the bottom” outsourcing are overlooked.
Janet Sang of Sussex Defend the NHS told our reporter, “The CCG and Brighton and Hove Council have got caught up in a fantasy where they claim the integration of health and social care will cancel out the devastating effects of cuts to our public services. That’s nonsense: 400,000 older people were removed from receiving social care in the UK between 2010 and 2015, and even more people are now in need. We need our representatives to fight tooth and nail for fully-funded, publicly-provided health and social care.”
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Contacts: Janet Sang 07847144291/ 01273562139
[email protected]
[email protected]
http://defendthenhssussex.weebly.com
https://twitter.com/SussexDefendNHS
https://www.facebook.com/SussexDefendTheNHS