NHS PAYS PRIVATE COMPANIES TENS OF MILLIONS POUNDS

It seems to be getting official the NHS is going to be dissolved, after all these rumours, and replaced by Insurance companies. It is the worst, for some the final, knock for average, poor and disabled people. Obviously, Johnson and his gang will not worry like they do not about the 60,000 CV19 death and 130,000 deaths caused by Austerity. 

Despite of these records May still denies NHS is in crisis
So far, it is so bad this winter that people die in ambulances, hospitals' corridors or waiting at home for ambulances but the winter has only just began. 80 people died in the last 3 weeks.

As if it is not enough that agencies are creaming off the NHS for supplying nursing staff and doctors now a private company receiving tens of millions a year to ease the bed blocking crisis.  It is no wonder the NHS is in a financial crisis and it is done purposely to speed up privatisation.

The reason is, again, the Government’s massive cuts to social care.

When patients are ready to leave the hospital, there is nowhere for them to go to. The hospital is in desperate need for free beds and therefore NHS has to send patients to private hospitals or private care homes.

The NHS Partners Network reports that beds are reserved in private hospitals for patients from an NHS hospital. It began as an emergency arrangement and then developed into a permanent arrangement.

So far, there is a 110 per cent rise since 2010, for patients needing a place in nursing homes. This put a bill of tens of millions a year on the NHS which could have been easily avoided if the Government would not have been cutting social services.

But of course, the Department of Health would have a counter argument: “We’re investing £2billion in social care to ensure those in old age get the dignified care they deserve.”

Shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth said: “Theresa May’s utter failure to get a grip on the ongoing crisis facing our health and care system.

“Shifting the burden on the private sector at extortionate cost is not in the long-term interest of NHS finance or patient welfare.”

No, but it is in the interest of the fatcats who are there waiting for the NHS to be privatised and the Government is determined to do.

UK NEW UNIVERSAL CREDIT IN TROUBLE

The UK government seem to be over-ambitious to change all the systems. Yet, it never seems to be thought through properly or organised before hand. At the end it cost the taxpayers more money than it should be saving as the government always promised.

In spite of promises that the NHS would be safe in their hands no sooner the Conservatives were elected they started to sack 4,000 nurses and closed A & E departments. By now the Doctors and nurses are under huge pressure and the waiting lists are far too long. Next months NHS will be transferred from the Department of Health to a Trust which smells of privatisation. If it is it will not be for the better.

Last year the government announced to change the welfare into the biggest shake-up for generation. The government's flagship the Universal Credit supposes to bring all the benefits into one payment. So far when the government changed something it was always for the advantage of the government never for the people.

Now it was revealed that the government’s pride and joy the Universal credit is already in crisis. Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Liam Byrne is trying for the MPs to admit that the scheme is in crisis and to try their hardest to sort it out now before millions of family’s tax credits are at risk.

Furthermore, a report revealed Work and Pension s Secretary Ian Duncan Smith had to put back three of four pilot schemes which supposed to have started next month to July. 

As mentioned earlier in this report all this mess is not surprising and the public had it too many times with the coalition meddling and trying to change systems which had been there for decays and worked.  Previously with the Conservative Party only in power Margaret Thatcher turned the whole country up side down with privatisation of gas, electricity, railway, shipbuilding and cling down most of the coal mines. The result was that shareholders (guess who) made a packet and all these industries deliver a poor service to the consumers.  It also resulted to five million unemployed. Since they haven’t learned their lesson PM Cameron plans to privatise the Royal Mail, Fire-brigade and selling he RAF Search and Rescue Service to an American Company.

MEALS ON WHEELS PRIVATISED AND PRICE RISE -- Update 18 Nov., 2014

Now many councils stopped or planning to stop the Meals on Wheels because of the already 40 per cent budget cuts and there is a further cut promised by the Government. 

How do these fatcats in Parliament think, if ever, housebound or bed-bound people survive. It is known that the politicians wine and dine on £4billion a year. That's were cuts should be.

UPDATE: 18 Nov., 2014 -- Now due to the severe cuts on council budgets many council have abandon  Meals-on-wheels services to a generation who deserves everything after their sacrifices they made. The Government forgets who put them there swimming in wealth and freedom. It would have been a different picture if that did not give their all at the front as well as back home in the last war.

This Government succeeded the most heartlessness, selfishness and greediest there has ever been.

The meals on wheels were privatised by the ToryLibDem coalition in Birmingham two years ago. The contract was given to a private firm called ‘ICare’ which is anything what the company’s name stands for. As with all private companies they too want to make a profit and have to.

The staff of 30 received a letter from the company’s director stating their wage will be cut from £8.13 to £6.19 plus their holiday and sick payment will be cut too. Furthermore, they can lose their job and given a week’s notice.

This is certainly a terrific shock to the drivers who use their own cars having to account for the wear and tear of the car and double insurance because they use it for business use. They reckon that by taken all this in account they would end up with £4 per hour. Their colleagues who haven’t got a car were already sacked.

While this was all going on the same bosses increased the meals on wheel from £4.10 to £5.71.  It also has to be paid for whole month ahead. The people who dealing with these elderly said that they were completely confused.

One of the drivers pointed out they were sold out. The elderly people they service rely on the hot meal once a day and for most it is their only outside contact.  They were shocked how the company is treating the drivers as well the Old Age Pensioners. They stated further that they deserve better. This coalition and their friends of private companies forget that it was this generation who saved Britain from the Nazi by sacrificing everything.

ICare defended their decision by stating that Birmingham City Council stopped paying the 20 per cent VAT but hold on a minute 20 per cent of £4.10 would be £0.82 and does not justify a £1.61 increase plus considering the decrease of the drivers' wages by £2 which adds up altogether to a £3.61 less £0.82 VAT makes it an increase of £2.79. Do they really CARE which is doubtful. From a start meals on wheels should not be charged VAT.  Again a point made by the Coalition of them and us. The coalition refuses to tax the Mansions but charge meals on wheels VAT.

Furthermore, the Chairman Stephen Emmanuel added: "The alternative was to make all employees on the contract redundant." This shows the whole attitude and it starts right from the top of the government down to companies' bosses.  

ANOTHER   DISGRACE   FOR   THE    COALITION   BUT   WILL   THEY   CARE?  NO