Clients.squareeye.net/uploads/2020/documents/esrc_targets.pdf. Driving the NHS to market. Aufheben's analysis of the long-term project to turn the NHS into a private sector, market-oriented healthcare industry.
The establishment of the National Health Service (NHS) has been considered the greatest achievement in social policy of the twentieth century in the UK. It was undoubtedly the jewel in the crown of the post-war class settlement in Britain. Yet now, with the renewed neoliberal offensive, which has followed the onset of economic crisis, the NHS in England faces perhaps its most serious threat in its sixty three year history. The NHS was founded on the socialist, if not communist principle of distribution: that is that health services should be provided on the basis of clinical need not the ability to pay.
This was certainly a vital gain for the working class. Of course, the NHS has had to exist within a capitalist society that has given rise to many contradictions and ambiguities from a communist point of view. This raises a number of interesting general questions: House of Commons Hansard Debates for 31 Jan 2011. 31 Jan 2011 : Column 569 House of Commons Monday 31 January 2011 The House met at half-past Two o'clock Prayers [Mr Speaker in the Chair] Oral Answers to Questions Defence The Secretary of State was asked- RAF St Athan 1.
The Minister for the Armed Forces (Nick Harvey): The defence technical training change programme is currently considering options for the future location-or locations-of defence technical training. Alun Michael: I really do not understand the Government's approach to this one. Nick Harvey: The right hon. Caroline Dinenage (Gosport) (Con): Does the Minister accept that, in these times of financial hardship, rather than building a new facility it would make more sense to consolidate defence training in areas with spare capacity, such as HMS Sultan in my constituency? Nick Harvey: The current training takes place at a variety of locations across the three services, some of which, including HMS Sultan, are in good order and could provide training well into the future.
The use of financial incentives to help improve health outcomes: is the quality and outcomes framework fit for purpose? A systematic review. Www.commed.vcu.edu/Chronic_Disease/2013/qualoutcomes.pdf. The Quality and Outcomes Framework: what have you done to yourselves? Journal of Social Policy - Fulltext - Markets and Motives Trust and Egoism in Welfare Markets. Journals Online - Journal of Social Policy - Fulltext - Agency, Modernity and Social Policy. Journal of Social Policy - Fulltext - Agency, Rationality and Social Policy. A CONSTITUTION FOR KNAVES CROWDS OUT CIVIC VIRTUES* - Frey - 2012 - The Economic Journal.
The American Economic Review, Vol. 87, No. 4 (Sep., 1997), pp. 746-755. The medicalisation of everyday life. NHS doctor and science writer Ben Goldacre writes about bullshit medical research, bogus science reporting, the placebo effect, and everything else from postmodernism to evolutionary psychology.
His critiques of the health system, pharmaceutical industry, and consumer health fads are extremely relevant - his focus on social factors, economic inequalities, and rejection of reductionist medicalising and/or individualising of what are essentially social/collective issues is pretty consistent with any critique class-struggle anarchists could produce. This is an edited extract from his book Bad Science.
When you’ve been working with bullshit for as long as I have, you start to spot recurring themes: quacks and the pharmaceutical industry use the exact same tricks to sell their pills, everybody loves a “science bit” - even if it’s wrong - and when people introduce pseudoscience into any explanation, it’s usually because there’s something else they’re trying desperately not to talk about. No. 'Defending the NHS'