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There’s no “magic money tree” - except when you’re signing off HS3 on a ‘nod and a wink’ for £7 billion, or interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan for £30 billion.
In October Simon Stevens set out his “five year plan”for the NHS. As a piece of marketing,is nice and succinct. It sets out a stall for the role of the NHS in a global economy. As a piece of strategy, it is dreadful. It’s dreadful whether you take the view that health provision entirely market-driven - or you view it through a more sophisticated clinical prism.
“Five year plans”. The phrase is redolent of Stalinist Russia. Nazi Germany preferred ‘four year plans’ as a strategy for war readiness.
Stevens' “Five Year Forward View”, published last week by NHS England, is a collaboration between the six main organisations now running the NHS - Monitor, Health Education England, the NHS Trust Development Authority, Public Health England, the Care Quality Commission and NHS England itself.
The “5 year Forward View” reads like a wish-list for further privatisation of the NHS.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/ournh...ve-year-forward-view-wishlist-for-privatisers
In October Simon Stevens set out his “five year plan”for the NHS. As a piece of marketing,is nice and succinct. It sets out a stall for the role of the NHS in a global economy. As a piece of strategy, it is dreadful. It’s dreadful whether you take the view that health provision entirely market-driven - or you view it through a more sophisticated clinical prism.
“Five year plans”. The phrase is redolent of Stalinist Russia. Nazi Germany preferred ‘four year plans’ as a strategy for war readiness.
Stevens' “Five Year Forward View”, published last week by NHS England, is a collaboration between the six main organisations now running the NHS - Monitor, Health Education England, the NHS Trust Development Authority, Public Health England, the Care Quality Commission and NHS England itself.
The “5 year Forward View” reads like a wish-list for further privatisation of the NHS.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/ournh...ve-year-forward-view-wishlist-for-privatisers