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Darzi report: Britain set to sacrifice more NHS services to create profit
CLAUDIA WEBBE warns that Starmer’s government is poised to accelerate harmful ‘integrated care’ policies, ignoring the reality that it is the decades of cuts and closures that have devastated public healthcare
WRONG ANSWERS : Lord Darzi’s ideas will lead to services leaving hospitals and the continued break-up of the NHS
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the government’s proposals to further limit the right of citizens to trial by jury
As we mark the anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, JOHN WIGHT reflects on the enormity of the US decision to drop the atom bombs
For 80 years, survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings have pleaded “never again,” for anyone. But are we listening, asks Linda Pentz Gunter
Labour councillor PAUL DONOVAN wonders why the right-wing party gets so much more media attention than it seems to merit
SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests
THE new government is determined not to learn the lessons of NHS history, dooming us to repeat it. Its embrace of Lord Darzi’s “rapid investigation” report puts this beyond reasonable doubt.
In his report, Darzi lavishes praise on Tory health policy, particularly the 2014 Five Year Forward View, its subsequent continuation, and the statutory rubber-stamping of the US accountable care organisation (ACO) system, which can be more accurately described as “cuts for cash” and was subsequently renamed integrated care systems (ICS) after bad publicity over US ACOs.
Darzi calls for Labour to continue all of this while at the same time lamenting the “massive Tory damage” to the NHS, which he appears to limit to the consequences of Andrew Lansley’s 2012 NHS and Social Care Act while discounting the hugely harmful effects of the ACO/ICS switch, which incentivises health providers for not providing care by awarding them a share of “savings” generated by doing so.
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