SICKO COMPANIES AND THE NHS
SICKO COMPANIES LINE UP TO TAKE OVER NEW NHS SURGICAL CENTRE
Campaigners warned today that the companies exposed in the new Michael Moore movie Sicko are being lined up to take over the NHS's newest surgical centre.
Just two weeks ago Health Secretary Alan Johnson opened the brand new surgical centre at Kingston Hospital in South West London. Pressure group Health Emergency can reveal today that managers at the Kingston Hospital Trust are finalising highly secretive plans that could see one of the big US private health corporations fingered in the movie Sicko taking over the management of the new centre.
The move by Kingston Hospital would be an unprecedented experiment in privatisation and would take the use of private companies deeper into the heart of the NHS than ever before. The Trust management are refusing to name the preferred companies on the grounds of "commercial confidentiality" but campaigners are warning that at least one of the US giants is likely to be in the frame.
Geoff Martin, Health Emergency Head of Campaigns, said today:
" The Government are sitting back while hospital chiefs are working up plans that could bring the nightmare of Sicko right into the heart of our NHS.
Anyone who thought that the brakes had been slammed on to NHS privatisation should take a long hard look at what's going on behind closed doors at Kingston Hospital in south London today.
These faceless NHS bureaucrats should be stopped dead in their tracks before they wreck what's left of the NHS with their profit driven schemes."
Campaigners warned today that the companies exposed in the new Michael Moore movie Sicko are being lined up to take over the NHS's newest surgical centre.
Just two weeks ago Health Secretary Alan Johnson opened the brand new surgical centre at Kingston Hospital in South West London. Pressure group Health Emergency can reveal today that managers at the Kingston Hospital Trust are finalising highly secretive plans that could see one of the big US private health corporations fingered in the movie Sicko taking over the management of the new centre.
The move by Kingston Hospital would be an unprecedented experiment in privatisation and would take the use of private companies deeper into the heart of the NHS than ever before. The Trust management are refusing to name the preferred companies on the grounds of "commercial confidentiality" but campaigners are warning that at least one of the US giants is likely to be in the frame.
Geoff Martin, Health Emergency Head of Campaigns, said today:
" The Government are sitting back while hospital chiefs are working up plans that could bring the nightmare of Sicko right into the heart of our NHS.
Anyone who thought that the brakes had been slammed on to NHS privatisation should take a long hard look at what's going on behind closed doors at Kingston Hospital in south London today.
These faceless NHS bureaucrats should be stopped dead in their tracks before they wreck what's left of the NHS with their profit driven schemes."
posted by Geoff Martin at 11:17 AM
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