ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
I wonder if they'll buy my arse?
campaign against welfare cuts and poverty
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I wonder if they'll buy my arse?
Frankie Jack
Not a bloke..
Treacle Toes
Time
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/oct/03/private-contracts-signed-nhs-privatisation?CMP=twt_guHundreds of contracts signed in 'biggest ever act of NHS privatisation'
Labour says private contracts worth a quarter of a billion pounds have been signed this week
- Randeep Ramesh, social affairs editor
- guardian.co.uk,Wednesday 3 October 2012 13.48 BST
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Andy Burnham said Labour would make NHS organisations the health service's 'preferred provider'. Photograph: Ray Tang/Rex Features
Contracts for almost 400 NHS services, worth a quarter of billion pounds, were signed this week resulting in the "biggest act of privatisation ever seen in the NHS", Labour's health spokesman Andy Burnham has said.
In a briefing before his speech to the Labour party conference, Burnham said he had "evidence of accelerating privatisation" – citing a rash of examples across England which he said showed the government was committed to a "market in healthcare".
Burnham pointed out that non-emergency ambulance services in the north-west would soon be run by the bus group Arriva and that Lancashire county council had awarded the contract to run patient advocacy groups to a private firm, Parkwood Healthcare.
However the "biggest privatisation" so far was in community services – those areas of healthcare offered outside of hospitals. Labour used freedom of information requests to survey England's NHS primary care trusts on the range and value of community services being offered to the private and voluntary sector under the government's "any qualified provider" policy.
In the first wave, 398 contracts were signed this week in eight NHS areas – including musculoskeletal services for back pain, adult hearing services in the community, wheelchair services for children and primary care psychological therapies for adults.
Labour says £262m of services have drawn bids from 37 private healthcare companies. In about a quarter of the cases – 110 times – the health trusts stated "they had no plans to tender before the government instruction".
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
Several charities set to close because of Work Programme contracts:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19822669
Wave goodbye to what help there is for the long-term unemployed. Fuckers.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19822669
Wave goodbye to what help there is for the long-term unemployed. Fuckers.
Frankie Jack
Not a bloke..
Incapacity Benefits: Deaths of
recipients
9 July 2012
Page 6
Table 3: Claimants leaving ESA between January and November 2011 with a recorded date of death, Great Britain.
WCA Outcome at most recent assessment
Number of claimants leaving ESA with a recorded date of death
Assessment not complete 2,200
Work Related Activity Group 1,300
Support Group 7,100
Total 10,600
Source: The figures are derived from administrative data held by the Department for Work and Pensions and assessment data provided by Atos Healthcare.
Note: All figures have been rounded to the nearest 100.
Data on the number of ESA claimants that have died following a fit for work decision is not available, as the Department does not hold information on a death if the person
has already left benefit.
The Department does not hold information on the number of claimants who died whilst an appeal was in progress.
recipients
9 July 2012
Page 6
Table 3: Claimants leaving ESA between January and November 2011 with a recorded date of death, Great Britain.
WCA Outcome at most recent assessment
Number of claimants leaving ESA with a recorded date of death
Assessment not complete 2,200
Work Related Activity Group 1,300
Support Group 7,100
Total 10,600
Source: The figures are derived from administrative data held by the Department for Work and Pensions and assessment data provided by Atos Healthcare.
Note: All figures have been rounded to the nearest 100.
Data on the number of ESA claimants that have died following a fit for work decision is not available, as the Department does not hold information on a death if the person
has already left benefit.
The Department does not hold information on the number of claimants who died whilst an appeal was in progress.
stuff_it
Too skool for cool
Whoa, even the Standard is writing articles about poverty in the UK.... http://www.standard.co.uk/business/...0-worse-off-than-three-years-ago-8196688.html
EG, these charities agreed to work within a framework of coercion, threats of sanctions for claimants, etc, just as the new Disability Rights UK Work Programme Coalition is doing, have no tears for them..
BigTom
Well-Known Member
I was just coming to post that, fucking disgusting, just a few days ago some tory scum councillor on twitter was telling a Labour MP that it was wrong and immoral to say people were starving in the UK because of benefit cuts and then this happens.
Looking more and more like the old eastern bloc countries, attacking its own citizens, demonising them, its not sustainable though...
Fucking disgrace and an abomination...Is the mainstream media covering this story?, it deserves a thread of its own on urban at least....
Btw, the concept of part time workers having to look for full time work or assumed to be earning full minimum wage hours came from the banker Freud who has no experience whatsoever of welfare systems...
Btw2, Why do i feel the journalist, Patrick Wintour who has written this piece is relishing it all as he writes...
Btw2, Why do i feel the journalist, Patrick Wintour who has written this piece is relishing it all as he writes...
Monday 3rd December 2012 11:00 am please show your respect for the DWP/ATOS dead by holding a two minute silence
https://www.facebook.com/groups/420430254683362/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/420430254683362/
Frankie Jack
Not a bloke..
I've seen this appear over the past few days. Doesn't see to stem from any of the larger disability activist groups. Begining to think it's just someone who's picked a date out of the air and set a page up..
BigTom
Well-Known Member
http://www.insidehousing.co.uk//6524061.article#.UG6rC1_VW1I.twitter
More detail/analysis of the refugee child starving to death, it actually happened in March 2010, before the coalition came into power which I didn't realise. The organisation that existed at the time to help asylum seekers move onto mainstream benefits has had its funding cut and no longer exists, with the coalition muttering about how charities will fill the gap, which clearly was always pretty wide and is only getting wider now.
More detail/analysis of the refugee child starving to death, it actually happened in March 2010, before the coalition came into power which I didn't realise. The organisation that existed at the time to help asylum seekers move onto mainstream benefits has had its funding cut and no longer exists, with the coalition muttering about how charities will fill the gap, which clearly was always pretty wide and is only getting wider now.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Treacle Toes
Time
http://manchestermule.com/article/manchester-hit-by-28m-in-cuts-to-mental-health-care
Manchester hit by £28m in cuts to mental health care
Article published: Thursday, October 4th 2012
Cuts to mental health services, including axing 38 front line posts as part of a bid to save £28m over the next five years, have been approved by Manchester’s Mental Health and Social Care Trust, despite warnings from patients and trade unions.
The Trust gave the go-ahead to major changes to Manchester’s mental health services last week after months of controversy. Local patients’ group Manchester Users Network, backed by the public sector union Unison, have been in a bitter fight to save their community mental health services and recently threatened legal action on grounds of insufficient consultation.
Manchester Users Network warn that the proposed 20 per cent cuts to the service and the loss of 46 staff would have dire consequences and, in April 2012, lodged a claim for a judicial review that led the Trust to back down and launch a new consultation. In a decision announced on Thursday 27 September 38 staff from teams that support over 3,000 clients will go in a move expected to save £1.9m.
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stuff_it
Too skool for cool
More welfare 'reforms' being discussed at the TPC.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...-a-20-dole-cut-and-work-in-the-community.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...-a-20-dole-cut-and-work-in-the-community.html
Frankie Jack
Not a bloke..
FFS..!!
Printed on a Sunday in a paper which most of those directly affected by it wouldn't buy, let alone read. Talk about burying bad news.
Libertad
Sparking up a rollie in the Reichstag
stuff_it
Too skool for cool
I guess the only way to be sure would be to heard them all into work camps where someone would keep an eye on them...That's gonna cut into their 35 hours actively seeking work a bit.
Acoording to Sunday Times, at the TPC delegates from Westminster Council are to ''reveal figures that show benefit fraud is much much higher than stated DWP figures'' and will highlight a ''millionaire benefit fraudster''
This is the holy grail for tories, to be able to show 'massive benefit fraud'' the report seems to mention mostly H/B fraud...
This is the holy grail for tories, to be able to show 'massive benefit fraud'' the report seems to mention mostly H/B fraud...
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Another Iain Duncan Smith-inspired plan paralleling developments in NSDAP Germany.
We've had arbeit macht frei, we're undergoing the stigmatisation of the "useless eaters", and now they want to boost the economy and cut the government payroll by replacing low-skilled employees with free labour.
Nazi cunts, fuck off!!!
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