{"id":1318,"date":"2014-01-01T09:39:07","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T09:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ealingsaveournhs.org.uk\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2018-04-14T09:54:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T08:54:19","slug":"happy-new-year-issue-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ealingsaveournhs.org.uk\/?p=1318","title":{"rendered":"HAPPY NEW YEAR! &#8211; January 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Issue: 9 <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>January 2014<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>HAPPY NEW YEAR!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This occasional newsletter is researched, written and edited by a group of concerned residents in Ealing, West London who want to preserve our NHS. We view the wholesale engagement of private, for-profit healthcare service suppliers as unnecessary, profligate and dangerous. Process improvement is what is needed in our NHS \u2013 not revolution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>In this issue:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">+ Clause 118 \u2013 Unilateralism Gone Mad<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">+ Elderly Northern Widows \u2013 Not an NHS Budget Priority<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">+ Beveridge-style NHS \u2013 On the Sick List<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">+ NHS Mental Health \u2013 Disappearing Beds<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">+ The Nirvana of \u2018Whole Person Care\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">+ Serco in Healthcare \u2013 Not a Perfect Role Model<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">+ Is 24\/7 NHS Healthcare Achievable?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">+ Legal Drug Addicts<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">+ Primary Care Commissioning is a \u2018Mess\u2019 \u2013 says NHS Boss<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Clause 118: A Fundamental Attack on Democracy<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Behaving like, and sometimes looking like, a petulant schoolboy, Jeremy Hunt MP is apparently furious after a humiliating double defeat by judges who ruled that his attempts to close Lewisham Hospital A&amp;E unit were unlawful. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mr Hunt now wants to have the law changed so he can get his own way. He is championing Clause 118 in the Care Bill. This clause, if adopted, would grant powers to the Government to close a successful and financially viable NHS hospital if a neighbouring NHS Trust was deemed by Government to be failing. \u00a0Clause 118 eliminates the need for consultation with patients, the public and even the local CCG.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clause 118 is a fundamental attack on local democracy and is completely at odds with the Government\u2019s commitment to localism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Care Bill was debated in Parliament on Monday 16 December 2013. A 140,000 signature petition to drop Clause 118 was delivered to the Department of Health. Activists rallying outside the DoH\u2019S Richmond House in Whitehall can be seen here: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=abritFBRs-0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=abritFBRs-0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the start of the campaign to stop Clause 118 with a final vote in Parliament likely in February 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Beveridge-style NHS Privatisation \u2013 History, International Perspective and Bleak Future <\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr Lucy Reynolds in a recent editorial for \u2018NHS Managers\u2019 traces the history of state health service privatisation and paints a bleak future for the UK.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">John Redwood MP invented the Clinical Commissioning Group device in 1986 as a transitional step to enable the wholesale transformation of our NHS into an insurance-based system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Spain, the Beveridge-style NHS has largely been destroyed now as part of the upcoming US-EU trade merger (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership &#8211; TTIP) and this has lead to riots over the introduction of charges. The Swedish one has been privatised under competition law, and Sweden\u2019s rural areas now lack medical services. Both Israel and Saudi Arabia had Beveridge-style systems which performed well at low cost, but both are in the midst of privatisation now. It\u2019s only the chaos in Italian politics that has stalled the race to privatisation of health services in Italy under the cloak of European competition law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the Cuban Beveridge-style health care system we still have the world\u2019s most competent health service in terms of value for money. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next year is the target year for signing the TTIP. Probably the most toxic part of the draft TTIP is the \u2018investor-state dispute settlement\u2019. This latter mechanism allows big corporations to sue Governments before secret arbitration panels composed of corporate lawyers, which bypass domestic courts and override the will of parliaments. So for example, if the NHS decided in 2018 to outsource the management of the new Ealing Hospital (i.e. the Ealing Urgent Care Centre + \u2018Local Hospital\u2019) and UnitedHealth of Minneapolis USA was not invited to bid, UnitedHealth could sue the UK Government. The Green MP Caroline Lucas has published an early-day motion on this \u2018investor protection\u2019 issue, but so far only seven MPs have signed up for it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The EU is attempting to charm us all by predicting the TTIP will create a \u00a31 trillion surge in trade, investment and jobs which will benefit everyone. But the EU just invented that figure and so called \u2018free trade\u2019 agreements already in place internationally give the lie to this invention. For example Obama pledged the US-Korea Free Trade Agreement would increase US jobs by 70,000: in fact they dropped by 40,000. Clinton claimed the North America Free Trade Agreement would create 200,000 new jobs but it actually lost 680,000 jobs. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The outsourcing of commissioning support scheduled for 2016 potentially hands control of \u00a365 billion for commissioning NHS secondary and community healthcare to the for-profit sector.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>NHS North \/South Funding Disparity Penalises The Elderly<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David Blunkett MP, writing on the online Guardian web site, points up north\/south NHS funding differences. For example the north of England is bracing itself for NHS cuts of \u00a3722 million, whilst the Thames Valley can look forward to a growth in NHS allocated funding of \u00a3148 million. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This disparity seems somewhat unfair on the elderly, who are generally better off in the south than in the north. There may be more retired people in the south, but many are retired comfortably with income to buy in the kind of help that keeps people active, interested and alive. Many elderly people in the north, already historically disadvantaged, are currently struggling to make ends meet. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The over 85 population in England and Wales reached 1.25 million in 2011 with over 830,000 of them women, of which 620,000 are widows. So it\u2019s the \u2018oldest old\u2019 northern widows out of the whole elderly population who are likely to suffer most from the regional disparity of NHS budget cuts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>NHS Mental Health Bed Shortages<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Health Service Journal\u2019 recently reported that the provision of mental health beds in England had fallen by 31 % over the last 10 years. Over that same period mental health detentions have increased by 6%. Zero psychiatric beds were available in London on two occasions in August 2013. Out of area placements are not uncommon and the use of private provider beds at up to \u00a33,000\/week is also not unusual. Long journeys for patients and their loved ones are on the rise. The worst example is that of Manchester Health and Social Care this summer sending 86 patients to a string of private providers some as far away as Harrow &#8211; nearly 200 miles distant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In London, over the last 10 years the number of mental health beds per 100,000 population dropped from 51 to 32 by September 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The NHS mandate states:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018By March 2015\u2026.we expect measurable progress towards achieving true parity of esteem (for mental health), where everyone who needs it has timely access to evidence based services\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Only 14 months to go for the NHS to meet these expectations\u2026\u2026.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>The Nirvana of \u2018Whole Person Care\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The \u2018Toward Whole Person Care\u2019 report from the \u00a0Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) recently tackled this subject. Jackie Ashley\u2019s recent review of this report in \u2018The Guardian\u2019 makes for interesting reading.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anecdotally, it appears, most of us would prefer a health service where we are treated through a single reliable contact. We need to feel more in control and would prefer to stay at home. The seamless knitting together of health care and social care is what we want. Also we\u2019d all like to own our patient records.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However the implications of providing such idealised arrangements are daunting. Providing and maintaining a single point of contact for each of the 45 million adults in England and for each of the 11 million parents and guardians of the children in England is a very big ask.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Healthcare is funded nationally through general taxation, whereas most social care is funded through local authority block contracts and a mix of means-testing and private money.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As for staying at home and making use of home monitoring or tele-monitoring this could become more widespread and save on hospital and GP surgery visits, lengthy journeys and money. But England lags way behind the US and Japan on this. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Owning our own patient records sounds like a great idea. Record sharing and joint care planning offer huge benefits. But not all the historic data is held digitally and the consistent updating of 56 million personal databases sounds like a nightmare project. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Serco Accused of Overcharging and Lying, and Issues a Profit<\/b> <b>Warning<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Serco is one of the country\u2019s leading service outsourcing companies. It claims to employ 5,000 scientists and a forward order book worth \u00a319.1 billion. Serco appears to be good at under bidding for health care contracts, but poor at delivering the contracted service effectively and \/or profitably.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">+ GP Services, Cornwall<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Government has found that Serco resorted to lying in order to hide the poor quality of its understaffed service. The contract has been terminated 13 months early with Serco stating it will make a \u00a35 million loss on the contract.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">+ <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Managing Braintree Hospital, Essex<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Serco was awarded this contract in 2011. It was supposed to run until March 2015, but will now terminate early in December 2014. The hospital apparently failed to attract enough patients and Serco states that it will lose \u00a33 million on the contract.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">+ <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Community Health Service, Suffolk<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This contract is currently the subject of a National Audit Office (NAO) inquiry. \u00a0NAO concerns about the \u00a3140 million service include delays in producing care plans for palliative patients and carrying out health assessments for children in care. Serco expects to make a \u00a39 million loss by contract end in October 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">+ <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abandons Managing GP Practices and Large Hospitals in England<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Serco announced in December 2013 that it was pulling out of managing large NHS hospitals and NHS GP surgeries in England. In October 2013 Serco\u2019s healthcare boss resigned and in November 2013 its UK boss quit. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Consistent 24\/7 NHS Hospitals by 2016?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS Medical Director, trumpeted in December 2013 that he wants NHS hospitals to perform consistently seven days a week, every week. Reports suggest that this is much more about resource utilisation than meeting patients\u2019 needs. Trail blazer NHS Salford Royal Hospital, according to 15 December \u2018Sunday Times\u2019, is already offering seven day working and is boasting saving 80 beds and \u00a34.5 million in costs delivering urgent care. \u00a0However even Keogh admits that seven day working could cost the NHS anything up to an additional \u00a32 billion each year. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the face of it this will surely generally mean using more dieticians, occupational therapist, speech and language therapists, nurses, healthcare allied professionals, ward clerks and so on it goes. It will also mean needing more beds. If it doesn\u2019t then the NHS secondary care hospital services Monday through Friday must logically be degraded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Presumably this upgrade in weekend hospital care and treatment will apply to the biggest single cost item in healthcare \u2013 mental health. Will the additional mental health staff be available in 2016 to provide 24\/7 treatment and care for the mentally ill in NHS hospitals?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All this gush about the \u2018inconvenient truth\u2019 that patients fall ill seven day a week makes little sense when seven day, 24 hour GP primary care services are not being simultaneously trumpeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Part of the PR splash about this is that it fits in with the goal of fewer but larger and safer hospitals. \u2018Safer\u2019 is a tricky one for those whose medical condition will deteriorate or who will die waiting for an ambulance\u2026. travelling in an ambulance\u2026.or being parked up in an ambulance queuing outside a rare but large NHS Major Hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Some Privatisation Numbers<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">+ 10% &#8211; of all GP Surgeries in England are run by private companies<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">+ 358 \u2013 the number of GP Surgeries in England run by Virgin Care<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">+ \u00a320 billion \u2013 the value of the NHS budget in England available to private companies over the next few years<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">+ 105 \u2013 the number of companies that have been licensed to provide NHS Community Services<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhsforsale.info\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">www.nhsforsale.info<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Deaths from Prescription Antidepressants, Tranquillisers \u00a0and Painkillers On the Rise<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ONS has reported that 807 people died last year from overdoses of prescription drugs \u2013 a rise of 16% in five years. By far the highest proportion of these deaths \u2013 468 in fact \u2013 were prescription antidepressant\u2013related deaths.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An estimated 32,000 Britons are thought to be addicted to painkillers such as Solpadeine and MPs think that 1.5 million people are abusing tranquillisers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Compared with available help for illegal drug addicts there is relatively little help available for legal addicts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Obsessive Attempts by Jeremy Hunt MP to Micromanage the NHS<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Secretaries of State are appointed presumably to be responsible for strategies and policies. Civil servants are paid to implement these strategies and policies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So why is Hunt himself phoning NHS hospital managers who have failed to meet performance targets? He also keeps banging on about taking money away from clinicians who fail to meet his targets and standards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sir Malcolm Grant, Chairman of NHS England with a staff of over 6,000, has publicly berated Hunt and other politicians about continued meddling in the running of the NHS. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Primary Care Commissioning is a \u2018Mess\u2019 Admits NHS England Director<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018PULSE\u2019 December 2013 quotes NHS England Medical Director Dr. Mike Berwick saying his organisation is making a \u2018mess\u2019 of Primary Care commissioning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He says NHS England needs closer engagement with GP-led CCGs to sort this out. A recent survey showed that 40% of CCGs believed that NHS England does not share their vision for Primary Care.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With the 152 PCTs having been replaced by 27 \u2018Area Teams\u2019 no doubt GPs feel somewhat remote from NHS regional management. To illustrate this the Area Team where I live in Hanwell is called NHS North West London and is the aggregation of eight CCGs across eight Local Authorities. It serves two million people through the services of 1,100 GPs in 400 GP practices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Berwick is calling for \u2018co-commissioning\u2019 of CCGs with Area Teams. What is co-commissioning you might ask? According to the \u2018Governance International\u2019 web site:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Co-commissioning involves the public sector and citizens working together, using each other\u2019s knowledge and expertise, to prioritise what services should be provided for which people , using public resources and the resources of communities\u2019. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now I\u2019m all for citizens being involved in the formative stages of requirements definition and plan making for a whole range of public services, but I\u2019m somewhat apprehensive about citizen involvement in prioritising resources for services such as brain surgery, mental health therapy and the removal of limbs and internal organs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Issue: 9 January 2014 &nbsp; HAPPY NEW YEAR! &nbsp; This occasional newsletter is researched, written and edited by a group of concerned residents in Ealing, West London who want to preserve our NHS. 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We view the wholesale engagement of private, for-profit healthcare service suppliers as unnecessary, profligate and dangerous. 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