Looks like it could soon be 'RIP the NHS'?

This looks to be another nail in the coffin:

Jeremy Hunt is selling off another vital part of the NHS, even though it’s MAKING money

NHS Professionals (NHSP) is the largest provider of temporary medical staff to the NHS. It manages staffing banks for a number of NHS trusts, and has over 90,000 medical professionals registered with its service. It is a limited company wholly owned by the Department of Health. And it provides trusts with staff at reasonable rates, much lower than those of private staffing agencies.

On average, it saves the NHS £70 million a year.

Regardless of which company snaps up NHSP, it is a great loss for the health service. NHSP saves the NHS vast amounts of money through its low-cost staffing. It is also a profitable outfit that then ploughs that money back into public health provision. Its sell off will mean that these profits stuff the pockets of shareholders and executives instead. And it could see the costs to the NHS increase if its new owners raise the rates to ensure that their pockets overflow.

www.thecanary.co/2016/11/21/jeremy-hunt-selling-off-another-vital-part-nhs-even-though-making-money/

I once worked as a volunteer clerk in the A&E Department of a city hospital about 10 years ago. Being a hard-working volunteer meant I could voice strong opinion when I saw peoples of other nations who did not even speak English walk into A&E and receive treatment for the most minor of ailments from dedicated staff and doctors, and receive pills, plasters, bandages, antiseptics, etc, to take home. I said at the time that passports should be shown, along with another form of ID, and that the country of origin should be invoiced for all costs - as happens in Germany and France.

On another subject of healthcare. In conversation recently, I said that the older generation in Germany were better looked after with healthcare/free travel passes/tv licences/fuel allowance, etc. The answer that came back was that they had to pay into private schemes as well as state schemes whilst they were working. Not sure about healthcare finance in Mattress-money countries such as France/Italy/Greece/Spain. NHS. Another reason so many immigrants want to come here.

They come to the UK to find work!! Most of them are young and fit.

Were the people in A and E tourists? It doesn't seem likely that people would pay for a flight to get a pill and plaster for free.

www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2016/11/30/a-note-to-jeremy-hunt-on-misjudgement/

The comments on this are extremely disturbing.
Anyone who doesn't think the NHS is being privatised should read this.

www.stopthestps.org.uk/stp-effects/4593180601

The public are not the only ones not to know what the STPs are about. GPs, practice managers and half the BMA have no idea.

'Recently (Nov.1st) BMA London Region said that half of the members had never even heard of STPs.

A twitter survey of GPs and Practice managers found that 84% didn’t know what is in their area’s STP about General Practice/Primary care. No one else knows either - if we are to believe replies from Council Leaders to members of the public who have asked them to publish the STP for their area.

Of course, NHS England and almost all the NHS & Local Authority organisations involved in the STPs are spinning them as being about improvement to the quality of NHS and social care services and reduction of health inequalities through preventive care. '

Why do we have a CQC? What good are they doing if they can behave like this?

www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/minh-alexander-anonymous-pam-linton-clare-sardari/why-is-cqc-ignoring-or-even-suppressing-pri

The people are fighting back - at least the councils are in the form of Health and Wellbeing Boards.

skwawkbox.org/2016/12/06/healthwellbeing-boards-councils-unanimously-reject-nhs-sustainability-plan/

I wonder what Jeremy Hunt will do now.