Im barely half way through this article by the Excellent Social Investigations (that exposed all the MPs and peers vested in interests in private healthcare and pharma companies as they voted through the stealth-privatising Health and SOcial Care Act) and Im gob smacked. I didnt even know such a company as Healthcare UK exists, and here is info that it was set up to sell NHS expertise abroad, but 80% of the contracts it has gained have ended up in private hands. This article reports on deals with China where the UK government has promised to give Chinas main financial investment organisation access to confidential information in return for Chinese investment in UK companies. wtf? The article also says that the UK coalition governments 2011 Plan for Budget Growth included a statement that the company that was then called NHS Global and then became Healthcare UK would ‘make the most of the NHS brand internationally and ...offer support and advice to NHS trusts…act as a point of contact for NHS organisations’ to create ‘international customers’ and ‘international opportunities.’ I wonder if this is anything to do with our hospitals Trusts plans to increase its income from overseas patients? (Mentioned in its Balanced Plan for dealing with £20m funding cut this financial year, that the Councils Scrutiny Panel called the Trusts Chief Exec in to explain this week - but totally failed to ask him about any of the Trusts plans to raise income.)
Posted on: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 09:39:59 +0000
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