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Socialist Party :: Who’s robbing our NHS?

The National Health Service is under attack as never before. In this feature, a GP from north-west England looks at the effect of a huge government push for privatisation while nurse Claire Job looks at the predatory actions of the pharmaceutical industry.

NHS watchdog says Virgin Care-run clinic put patients at risk | Society | The Guardian

The NHS watchdog has accused a privately run urgent care centre of putting patients’ health at risk by using receptionists with minimal medical training to assess how unwell arrivals were.

A Care Quality Commission (CQC) report has criticised the operation of the urgent care centre at Croydon hospital in south London, which is run by Virgin Care. CQC inspectors found the centre was in breach of four basic standards of care and have told Virgin Care to outline by next week the remedial action it is taking.

The CQC’s report, based on inspections of the centre last July and September, concluded that “care and treatment was not planned and delivered in a way that was intended to ensure people’s safety and welfare”.

38 Degrees interview: Meet British politics’ spammer-in-chief

MPs have come to despise 38 Degrees for clogging up their inboxes with emails from constituents. They need to get used to it – because this model of campaigning-by-email-bombardment isn’t going away.

For an organisation only set up in 2009, 38 Degrees has notched up its fair share of victories. It forced the coalition government’s first big U-turn, on the forests sell-off. It called for more free school meals – and Nick Clegg duly announced they were being rolled out for all infants. It raised enough cash to pay for the judicial review which successfully challenged health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s plans to shut down key services at Lewisham hospital.

“It’s not often you can say ‘I took the government to court and won’, but that’s what thousands of 38 Degrees members could say last year,” its executive director David Babbs tells me. We’re seated at a meeting table in the middle of the 38 Degrees office in central London. From here, the small team of around 15 staff coordinate the activities of its 2.2 million members. Compare that to the 193,000 members of the Labour party – and the 130,000 Tory party members – and you get a sense of the scale of the operation.

Vatican ‘kept code of silence’ on paedophile priests, claims UN report – World Politics – World – The Independent

Snowden leak: GCHQ DDoSed chatrooms of Anonymous, LulzSec • The Register

Pulling power: Wendi Deng reportedly wrote a letter praising Tony Blair’s body – but she’d hardly be the first to go weak at the knees – UK Politics – UK – The Independent

Strangely written from the deluded and divorced from reality perspective of Tony Blair.

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“I want to use this election to raise awareness of the imminent danger posed to the NHS by the EU/US trade agreement which will allow American companies to carve up the NHS and make the privatisation process irreversible.

“I also want to alert the public to the gravity of the threat to the NHS from this government with its programme of cuts, hospital closures and privatisation and to send a powerful message to politicians in Westminster and Brussels that people will not stand by and let their NHS be destroyed.

“If elected, I will strive to ensure that EU regulations don’t adversely affect the NHS and are always in the best interests of the health of British people. The health of the nation spans all areas of policy from the environment to the economy”.

 

 

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SHALL WE DO SOME TERRORISM BULLSHIT?

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LIQUID EXPLOSIVES TERRORISM BULLSHIT

BE AFRAID

John Reid, 99

later: Well be awfully afraid. You can’t possibly take more than 100ml of anything because you’re a terrorist unless proved otherwise.

Total bullshit. Be afraid you plebs.

Shall we discuss the impossibility of Hydrogen Pyroxide bombs?

Shall we discuss dust explosions?

later later: I think that’s the ABSOLUTE impossibility of Hydrogen Pyroxide bombs. I can engage you with this because it is absolute bullshit.

20.40 There are mistakes. I do claim that the notion of liquid bombs that can be concocted in minutes … leading to bans of materials on aircraft … is absolute terrorism bullshit / fake manufactured terrorism … courtesy of former Home Secretary John Reid.

16/7/14 John Reid made a big issue of his first 100 days when he was made Home Secretary. On the 99th day we get liquid explosives bullshit. There have never been liquid explosives – it is a total fantasy manufactured to make you afraid.

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SHALL WE DO SOME TERRORISM BULLSHIT?

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LIQUID EXPLOSIVES TERRORISM BULLSHIT

BE AFRAID

John Reid, 99

later: Well be awfully afraid. You can’t possibly take more than 100ml of anything because you’re a terrorist unless proved otherwise.

Total bullshit. Be afraid you plebs.

Shall we discuss the impossibility of Hydrogen Pyroxide bombs?

Shall we discuss dust explosions?

20.40 There are mistakes. I do claim that the notion of liquid bombs that can be concocted in minutes … leading to bans of materials on aircraft … is absolute terrorism bullshit … courtesy of former Home Secretary John Reid.

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