NHS agency staff provider to be privatised – for profit, not service
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The staffing agency will be sold off with the aim of creating a ‘profitable business model’ [Image: Rui Vieira/PA].
Yet now the Conservative Government intends to privatise the main provider of agency staff, in order to create a “profitable business model”.
Hmm.
And the quality of service doesn’t enter anywhere into the Tory calculations.
This is because a nationalised service like the NHS – used as a necessity by millions of people – is an automatic money-maker.
The aim is clearly to rip off patients by providing the worst possible care for the highest possible price to the health service…
… and then claim the service is failing and push it further towards complete privatisation.
But it seems nobody with a vote wants to accept that fairly obvious fact. Why?
The Government is to privatise the NHS’s in-house, publicly-owned provider of agency staff, ministers have announced.
NHS Professionals, the health service’s main staffing agency, provides 90,000 health workers to around a quarter of NHS trusts, covering two million shifts a year.
In a written statement issued on Thursday as most MPs headed back to their constituencies, the Government announced it would sell off a majority stake in the orgnaisation to the private sector with the aim of “creating a profitable business model”.
Source: Government quietly privatises the NHS’s in-house agency staff provider | The Independent
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There is already a profitable business model for supplying agency staff, there has been for a long time, what they actually mean is they want to extend the private provision instead of keeping the in house agency as well.
And another nail in the coffin
Cheaper and better to do away with agency staff by recruiting, training and paying a decent wage structure so that an adequate work force turned up on time and agency staff become a thing of the past. Clueless greedy morons.
What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again. Estelle Morris
Fait accompli….
Yup,it’s all about money to the tories.
i just wish someone on here had the time and the expertise to be able to compile a list of all MP’s who have got vested interests,shares,directorships,etc in any firms connected to the NHS which are being privatised.
someone please step foward,things are getting desperate.
A list was compiled during the Coalition Parliament.
It certainly seems appropriate to compile a new one now.
brill suggestion….would be good to see why some are singing louder than others.
Here is the list that you require: http://socialinvestigations.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/nhs-privatisation-compilation-of.html
Compiled in February 2012. We’ve had a general election since then and I stand by my comment that the list could do with an update.
I just wish everyone would get involved. They are involved by being taken advantage of by this government so they need to wake up and join in the condemnation of its deceit.