A TRIP ACROSS THE SEA
You and the broomstick crashed into the Atlantic!
My New Broomstick!
You careless wanton cat!
You’ve sent a seagull to the Mayo Clinic instead!
To console me, you’ve brought me an interesting article about polyclinics, My Black Cat?
I’m a hopping mad witch, so it better be a good article.
A CLIENT STALKER
An article from someone who really has a handle on what is going on……
You think everyone should read it, My Black Cat?
Absolutely!
Everybody!
Give us a taste of what is says, My Black Cat…..
“This, at any rate, is the government’s story, and at first sight it is plausible. The truth, as always, is stranger and more complex. It begins with a bare-faced lie.”
That’s a good start.
Wonder what the bare faced lie was?
Any other really interesting bits?
” This means waging a public relations war against GPs and the other public sector dinosaurs who impede choice and change. It means a thousand small steps towards privatisation. The government is expanding the number of independent sector treatment centres, even though they turn out to be far less efficient than the NHS and leave the taxpayer with major liabilities(11). It is opening staggeringly expensive polyclinics, operating seven days a week, which will be run by multinational companies(12). It will allow the primary care trust in Birmingham to shut the city’s surgeries and replace them with primary care units franchised to corporations - the promoter of this scheme happily admits to modelling it on McDonalds(13). It is transferring GPs’ surgeries to supermarkets (the first was opened by Sainsbury’s last week(14)) and giving high-street chemists responsibility for diagnosing and treating minor ailments, even though they are not qualified to tell the difference between an ordinary cough and lung cancer. No minister can now discuss the NHS without mentioning “new providers” or “alternative providers”, which is their code for private companies, or “choice” and “reform”, which means privatisation.
Strong stuff!
Eh?
Who wrote it?
George Monbiot - THE PATIENT STALKERS
Well, well, My Black Cat, I’m not so mad at you after all.
This is an article for everyone to read and think about carefully.
Very carefully.
And then decide what has to be done.
a red apple ……………………
The Witch Doctor - Link to a random page
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