" The HSJ has just revealed that the East Midlands, Nottinghamshire and Nottingham STP has recently contracted Capita to help with the setting up of its Accountable Care System. Remember 'accountable' means for the money, not people's treatment. Capita has in turn subcontracted part of the contract worth £2.7m to a company called Centene, which is part of a major insurance company Centene Corporation which sets up care plans for Medicare and Medicaid in the US. It has worked with the Spanish Healthcare provider Ribera Salud on its Alzirea ACS in Valencia, according to the HSJ.
Ribera Salud is also working with Northumberland Tyne and Weir STP although presumably without the middlemen Capita and Centene. What this means in the long term is that as a country, we'll be paying more for less, than when we had a National Health Service.
In the public spat between Jeremy Hunt and famous physicist Stephen Hawking, the intellectual rigour and the moral high ground is with Stephen Hawking. But it needs all of us to speak out. We need to stand together and stand up for those less fortunate than ourselves. Stephen Hawking said that on a trip to the US he heard someone say a disabled person's life has no value! This can not be true. He is part of the evidence. "
