American Observer comments.
The opening paragraph of Mr. Colvile’s latest political corrective:
How did you mark the great occasion? Personally, I’m worried I didn’t do enough. Sure, I got the tattoo and renamed both of my children “Aneurin”. But it’s Our NHS. Its 75th birthday deserved much more.
Like his political idol Mrs. Thatcher, Mr. Colvile is a humorless ideologue. Mr. Colvile version of Thatcherism engages in a self-serving ‘changing the subject’ at will, that mimics political concern for the welfare, and the greater good of children? Thatcher’s Household God was Hayek’s ‘Road to Serfdom’, she passed it out like party favors. We still live in that political collapse: so in propaganda terms, ‘changing the subject’ is advantageous in ‘cover your ass’ terms! That the NHS is being ‘privatized’ is inconvenient to Mr. Colvile:
This from 2022:
Headline: NHS privatization drive linked to rise in avoidable deaths, study suggests
Sub-headline: Outsourcing accelerated by Lansley’s shakeup in 2012 linked to drop in care quality in landmark review
The privatisation of NHS care accelerated by Tory policies a decade ago has corresponded with a decline in quality and “significantly increased” rates of death from treatable causes, the first study of its kind says.
The hugely controversial shakeup of the health service in England in 2012 by the health secretary, Andrew Lansley, in the Tory-Lib Dem coalition government, forced local health bodies to put contracts for services out to tender.
Billions of pounds of taxpayers’ cash has since been handed to private companies to treat NHS patients, according to the landmark review.
It shows the growth in health contracts being tendered to private companies has been associated with a drop in care quality and higher rates of treatable mortality – patient deaths considered avoidable with timely, effective healthcare.
The analysis by the University of Oxford has been published in the Lancet Public Health journal. “The privatisation of the NHS in England, through the outsourcing of services to for-profit companies, consistently increased [after 2012],” it says.
“Private-sector outsourcing corresponded with significantly increased rates of treatable mortality, potentially as a result of a decline in the quality of healthcare services.”
With a record 6.5 million patients now waiting for care, and private companies being lined up to help tackle the backlog worsened by the Covid-19 pandemic, the research will prompt new fears over the potential harms of the increased outsourcing of NHS care.
“Our study suggests that increased for-profit outsourcing from clinical commissioning groups [CCGs] in England might have adversely affected the quality of care delivered to patients and resulted in increased mortality rates,” the authors said.
“Our findings suggest that further privatization of the NHS might lead to worse population health outcomes.”
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Mr. Colvile attempts to cover his political tracks by introducing his concern ‘we’ve forgotten schools need intensive care’ . The next 929 words show him at full gallop , while the NHS is left in the clouds of self-created political dust, Mr. Colvile’s has kicked up born of that vital ‘change of subject’!
American Observer
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