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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
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
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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