0100,0100,0100International Centre for Health & Society 2000 Seminar Series
Speaker: Professor Allyson Pollock, UCL
'Breaking the 1948 contract -
the NHS & the Private sector Concordat'
Date: Wednesday 22 November, All welcome, RSVP essential
Time: 5pm (followed by drinks at 6pm)0100,0100,0100
Venue: see address below
Abstract
In August 2000 the labour government launched a National Plan for
the NHS in England. The Plan rejected the central recommendation
of the Royal Commission on long term care report that personal care
should be free, as a consequence personal care is a personal
responsibility no matter how catastrophic the event or nature of care
required. The Plan also signalled an even greater role for the private
sector in the funding and the provision of health and social care.
On the 31st October 2000 Alan Milburn Secretary of State for Health
signed a concordat between the NHS and the private sector on behalf
of the labour government. This has been spun to the public as a
pragmatic approach on the part of the government to use spare
capacity in the private sector. The Third way solution is that it does
not matter which sector provides care so long as it is publicly funded.
This lecture explores the evidence for this assertion and the way in
which the shift to private sector provision will erode universal rights to
health care.
Professor Pollock trained in medicine in Scotland and worked in
hospitals in Edinburgh and Leeds before moving to London in 1986
and has extensive senior experience of working in health authorities in
Newham, Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Camden & Islington and
Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth. Professor Pollock is currently the
Head of Health Services and Health Policy Research Unit at the
School of Public Policy, UCL & Director of Research and Director of
Research & Development at University College Hospitals Trust.
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