The Socialist 19 April 2007

Kick big business out of the NHS

Nurses' fury at cuts and attacks on jobs

NHS London - delivering private health

Build for national action against fees

Election manifesto 2007

Leicester: A principled stand against opportunists

Young socialist standing for Save Huddersfield NHS

Wales manifesto launch

Save our NHS campaign fields five candidates in South Lakes

Nursery cuts campaign launch

Making a difference in Lincoln

Vote Socialist Alternative on 3 May

RMT victory: Union militancy pays

Wanted - a new mass party for workers

Campaign for a New Workers' Party Conference

Tube workers win big victory over Metronet

Campaigning for a £26,000 minimum wage

Young trade unionists reject New Labour

Greenwich UNISON steps up fight against pay cuts

Venezuela: Will the trade unions give up their independence?

Bush's man at the World Bank in corruption scandal

Bosses' Pension

Blockading Britain's warhead factory

Fighting for the right to walk in the countryside

Cuts reduce advice for the people who most need help

Bank that only serves the rich

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NHS London - delivering private health

NHS LONDON, the biggest of the strategic health authorities, is full of voices standing up for private profit in the health service. The chief executive is management consultant Ruth Carnall. She used to be non-executive director of Care UK, a private company presently involved in negotiations over taking over primary care services in London. These negotiations will be supervised by Ruth Carnall.

Blair's health adviser Paul Corrigan is NHS London's new director of strategy and commissioning. He is a fan of foundation hospitals and privately run independent treatment centres that carry out routine hip, knee and cataract operations for profit within the NHS.

That is yet another champion of private profit in the health service. So will be Anthony Sumara, NHS London's Turnaround director, the man who will tackle the debts of the capital's hospitals. He is still heading the heavily indebted Hillingdon Primary Care Trust in west London where he infuriated people with plans to privatise almost all its services and operations.

Private Eye magazine points out that the £12.5 billion budget under NHS London's business-friendly control smells sweet to the private medical industry. NHS London has set up the London Development Provider Agency to encourage sell-offs and transfers.

Its first boss is Malcolm Stamp. He was in charge at Norfolk and Norwich Hospital Trust when it took on its £220 million PFI deal which even MPs thought was the unacceptable face of capitalism.

His part-time chair is Lord Warner, former Labour minister for NHS delivery. NHS London and the nine other quangoes have only one delivery in mind - the transfer of the NHS and its potential profits into private hands.

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