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NHS – to be thrown away? The consequences of the Health & Social Care Bill

NHS – to be thrown away? The consequences of the Health & Social Care Bill. YOUR LAST CHANCE to KILL the BILL before the Bill kills the NHS. Speakers tonight Dr Ron Singer , President of the Medical Practitioners Union Alan Ridley , Royal College of Nursing

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NHS – to be thrown away? The consequences of the Health & Social Care Bill

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  1. NHS – to be thrown away?The consequences of the Health & Social Care Bill Defend Haringey Health Services Coalition May 2011

  2. YOUR LAST CHANCE to KILL the BILLbefore the Bill kills the NHS Speakers tonight Dr Ron Singer, President of the Medical Practitioners Union Alan Ridley, Royal College of Nursing Kieran McGregor, Save Chase Farm Campaign Defend Haringey Health Services Coalition May 2011

  3. GET ANGRY and ACT! • The speakers will explain why you should be angry. • Have you noticed the quiet ‘Pause’? – make sure that the government listens and chucks out the Bill! • We can provide you with the ammunition to KILL the BILL • Join the campaign – we need your ideas! • www.defendharingeyhealthservices.org Defend Haringey Health Services Coalition May 2011

  4. Listening exercise • DEADLINEMay 31st. • DEMAND public meetings for patients and an EXTENSION of the deadline. • RESPOND to the government’s Listening Exercise. • TELL the government what you think of the Bill– and get everyone you know to do so as well. • WRITE to: NHS Modernisation Listening Exercise, Room 605 Richmond House, 79 Whitehall, London SW1a 2NS or emailnhsfutureforum@dh.gsi.gov.uk • Government websitehttp://healthandcare.dh.gov.uk/listening-exercise-how-to-get-involved/ Defend Haringey Health Services Coalition May 2011

  5. Write and say - • The Bill must include a clearly defined role for the Secretary of State to provide accessible health services to all. • Accountability to the public is severely reduced with the abolition of Primary Care Trusts and Strategic Health Authorities. Substitute bodies are not required to meet the public or answer for their decisions. • Foundation Trusts (i.e. hospitals) are not obliged to provide a full range of public health services; current obligations being repealed in the Bill. Market forces could make some hospitals fail causing gaps in provision. • ‘Efficiency Savings’ imposed by the government are already reducing the number of treatments and staffing levels in hospitals. Hospital workers are under acute stress. From John Lister’s article in BMJ • Ask about those face to face meetings promised; demand to be included. One has been announced for LVSC Resource Centre Holloway Road 2-4 on May 13th. Defend Haringey Health Services Coalition May 2011

  6. Cuts are unnecessary & unwiseDebt is the total borrowed at a given time.Note UK debt is over 50% of GDP, but lower than US and a quarter of Japan’s. Defend Haringey Health Services Coalition May 2011

  7. Deficit is the annual excess of spending over income. In 1997 it was 42%, reduced to 29% by 2002, rose to 36% in 2008, then to 56% in 2010 with the global banking crisis. Defend Haringey Health Services Coalition May 2011

  8. Why cut spending on healthcare? • In Radical Statistics #102 www.radstats.org.uk, Danny Dorling pointed out that • ‘…..in just one year the wealth of the richest 1,000 individuals in the country had risen by £77bn (£77million each)’. • Thus the spring 2010 structural deficit of £70 billion could easily be paid off by that rich minority. Defend Haringey Health Services Coalition May 2011

  9. Health & Social Care BillMyth 1 Local independence Patients have more control NO The health secretary will have central control. He/She would - • Direct the NHS Commissioning Board, • Have control over Monitor (economic regulator) Defend Haringey Health Services Coalition May 2011

  10. Health & Social Care BillMyth 2 Costs will be reduced- £20bn efficiency target How? • 1.2bn is the DH estimation of cost of transferring commissioning to GP consortia • 20,900 redundancies • Disruption costs Defend Haringey Health Services Coalition May 2011

  11. Health and Social Care Bill Myth 3Shift balance of power to health professionals Fewer layers of bureaucracy No • To achieve savings, GP consortia must be 339,000 – PCT size. Consortia of size 100,000 would lose 1/3 of savings. • With consortia of that size, health professionals would have no more influence than they do now. • Decision making no nearer the patient. • Health secretary wants an intermediate layer above consortia • No directives on how consortia become accountable to patients. Defend Haringey Health Services Coalition May 2011

  12. Health and Social Care Bill Myth 4 Reduce bureaucracy, inefficiency & duplication No • The internal market has already increased transactional costs. • Commissioning itself increases duplication and office work & is costly. • More fragmentation will increase bureaucracy, inefficiency & duplication • Competition builds in waste though duplication. • Tariffs will be adjusted (11-14% more) for private providers to ‘level the playing field’. Defend Haringey Health Services Coalition May 2011

  13. Summarising what we say - The NHS is the best: - delivering high quality services fairly to everyone, cost effective; we pay less in taxes than people in other EU countries. Lansley’s bill gives you less say GP Consortia don’t have to make their decisions public - and are not obliged to provide healthcare to all local residents. Draconian central control of funding through ‘Monitor’ and the ‘National Commissioning Board’. GPs don’t want it They risk having to ration services – government imposed cuts are already restricting services. Look who says drop the bill! The British Medical Association, The Royal College of General Practitioners and The Royal College of Nursing. 264,254 have signed the 38degrees Save the NHS petition. http://www.38degrees.org.uk/ – many from Haringey. It’s cross party Liberal Democrat and even Conservative MPs like Norman Tebbit - are worried. Defend Haringey Health Services Coalition May 2011

  14. More Events MARCH TO SAVE THE NHS Tuesday 17 May. 5.30pm Assemble UCH Gower St. March sets off at 6pm to Whitehall Organised by London Keep Our NHS Public (KONP) Londonkeepournhspublic@gmail.com 07914 529959 Public meeting in Hornsey The Health and Social Care Bill – the end of the NHS we know? Tuesday 24th May, 7.30pm – Highgate Wood School, Montenotte Road, N8 8RN. Speakers include: John Healey MP, Karen Jennings, UNISON, Cllr Dilek Dogus, Haringey Council, Professor David Parkin, City University. Organized by Hornsey & Wood Green Labour Party 020 8340 7362 Defend Haringey Health Services Coalition May 2011

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