tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8742367813304231523.post7955550454290926888..comments2024-03-26T22:36:54.114+00:00Comments on Rob Donovan - Author: THE TORIES HAVE BEEN DISMANTLING OUR NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE FOR PROFIT Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05384235181109204383noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8742367813304231523.post-30789309845958935412019-12-01T16:53:09.460+00:002019-12-01T16:53:09.460+00:00Thanks Harry and Joseph for sharing your thoughts ...Thanks Harry and Joseph for sharing your thoughts on the NHS - I have been so taken up with campaigning in this all-important General Election, I have only just now realised you've added these comments. You both offer important insights - we are united in our determination to resist these neoliberal moves to dismantle our NHS. Thank goodness, I am finding the NHS my default vote winner in doorstep dialogue. ROB DONOVANhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11912261189836805409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8742367813304231523.post-82461805565461733822019-11-10T14:27:14.701+00:002019-11-10T14:27:14.701+00:00Excellent blog post Rob. You clearly lay out the s...Excellent blog post Rob. You clearly lay out the strategy from the first encroachments of Neoliberalist ideology to the current situation. The ideology that private companies competing for work creates efficiency and increases productivity though clearly false where public services are concerned, remains largely unchallenged. The movement from 'Sustainable Transition Plans' (the Orwellian language is blatant) to Integrated Care Services, and then on to Accountable Care Organisations is presented as non-ideological but simply common sense. Bringing all the different organisations and sections under one roof to increase efficiency. This is what we were told by Lib Dem and Tory Cornwall County Councillors when they were debating it. But Accountable Care Organisations, which will orchestrate the provision of care through both Health and Social Care agents, effectively doing what Local Authorities used to do, are not accountable to the people, nor to the clinicians, nor to the Government. They are accountable to the contracts that they sign. These contracts will determine what kind of treatments have to be provided and how many of them within the cost agreed. So if there is a need for more than what has been contracted for, there is no requirement to do them. This is the tried and tested Insurance company system: once the amount you are insured for has run out, you are on your own. If you need a treatment that is not included in the contract, you are on your own.<br />Scary. and the Lib Dems support this in Cornwall.Joseph Suarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10626649568384488877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8742367813304231523.post-7668869621418794242019-11-09T22:52:11.040+00:002019-11-09T22:52:11.040+00:00"LEST WE FORGET" . This is a compelling..."LEST WE FORGET" . This is a compelling revelation of the present and seemingly inexorable drift back to my own childhood days, which began 10 years before the NHS was 'born'. I vividly recall the despair and helplessness of all working class families like mine because of our collective lack of financial resources, to enable us to pay to banish the terrible pain and suffering from the stunted lives of people of all ages. However once Nye and Jennie shone their 'Socialist light' and raised the publics awareness that we could, if we politically organised, bring about the birth of the NHS. This wonderful initiative heralded the removal of the completely unnecessary suffering and premature deaths visited upon the many by the few. We were thereafter, able to produce a social structure that liberated the intellectual and physical talents of all our people. This one, unbelievable 'Political' initiative has allowed us to build a more productive and happier society. All we have to do now is to stop 'the few' from stealing it back from us and returning us to the shadows, where fear and despondency will surely replace the chains that we have, only so recently, shaken off.harry leeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13072515083309776786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8742367813304231523.post-9068339881623126332019-11-07T13:44:11.140+00:002019-11-07T13:44:11.140+00:00I'd better not!I'd better not!ROB DONOVANhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11912261189836805409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8742367813304231523.post-11783779321985867542019-11-07T12:11:19.537+00:002019-11-07T12:11:19.537+00:00It has been a disturbing blog to read... but what ...It has been a disturbing blog to read... but what else can be expected from a morally bankrupt bunch of .... I wish I could give full vent to my anger in written word .. but please fill in with any of the expletives you imagine I would addLouise Donovanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02580989515570407192noreply@blogger.com