OUR HEALTH IS NOT THEIR WEALTH

Stop the sell-off of GP surgeries to big private healthcare companies

The government is rolling out 250 new "GP-led health centres" (or polyclinics) across the UK. The super-surgeries are part of Lord Darzi's plan for the National Health Service.

They will use a new contract model, called the Alternative Provider of Medical Services, or APMS, which encourages the private sector to take over GP services.

Camden and Hackney Keep Our NHS Public groups are waging vigorous campaigns against the GP-led health centres/ polyclinics planned by their local Primary Care Trusts, and have enlisted support from GPs, other health workers and the local community.

Some 50 GP-led health centres are already in existence - another 200 are in the pipeline across the UK.

No research has been done on whether the centres/polyclinics are needed, and it seems likely they will compete with traditional GP surgeries for patients.

Contact KONP national office for resources and advice on campaigning against the new GP-led centres/ polyclinics.

BMA shows the way
The British Medical Association (BMA) is running a campaign against the sell-off of GP surgeries

URGENT CALL TO ALL NHS CAMPAIGNERS
Join our national campaign to say:

PRIMARY CARE TRUSTS MUST
SIGN NO MORE CONTRACTS
WITH PRIVATE COMPANIES

We have reached a very dangerous turning point with privatisation of NHS services. The government is forcing Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to split their commissioning (purchasing of services) from their provider (service provision) functions to further the government's aim to develop the National Health Service as a commercial healthcare market.

This process has been speeded up with the
Transforming Community Services (TCS)
programme and the Department of Health document
"Enabling New Patterns of Provision".

What must PCTs do and by when?

The government gave PCTs a deadline of April 2009 to split commissioning from service provision functions. By October 2009 PCTs must have drawn up detailed business plans for "transforming" local services, setting out how they will promote "contestability and competition"; "increase patient choice" (another name for introducing privatisation); improve service provision and agree on an "organisational form" for their future operation.

The PCTs commissioner/provider split is an open invitation to the private sector to bid for PCT services.

PCTs must end private sector contracts
OUR HEALTH IS NOT THEIR WEALTH

Keep Our NHS Public is urging all local KONP groups and health campaigners to demand that their local PCT stop signing contracts with private companies.

Lobby your local Health Scrutiny Committee (find out where and when it meets on your local council's website)
Lobby your local Primary Care Trust Board (find out where and when they meet on their website)
Lobby your local MPs (remember, there is an election coming up next year - find your local MPs at www.writetothem.com).
Organise public meetings and tell public and patients what is happening - sign up the people who come to Keep Our NHS Public and start spreading the word. More information from UNISON on the PCT commissioner/provider split

SPECIAL APPEAL FOR FUNDS

Keep Our NHS Public is in constant need of funds to carry on its work Organising against NHS privatisation.

Please help by filling in our standing order form, and campaigning locally for trade unions, pensioners' groups, community groups and others to join or affiliate to us.

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19 Vincent Terrace, London, N1 |
www.keepournhspublic.com
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Stop the sell-off of GP surgeries to big private healthcare companies

OUR HEALTH
IS NOT THEIR WEALTH

The government is rolling out 250 new "GP-led health centres" (or polyclinics) across the UK. The super-surgeries are part of Lord Darzi's plan for the National Health Service.

They will use a new contract model, called the Alternative Provider of Medical Services, or APMS, which encourages the private sector to take over GP services.

Camden and Hackney Keep Our NHS Public groups are waging vigorous campaigns against the GP-led health centres/ polyclinics planned by their local Primary Care Trusts, and have enlisted support from GPs, other health workers and the local community.

Some 50 GP-led health centres are already in existence - another 200 are in the pipeline across the UK.

No research has been done on whether the centres/polyclinics are needed, and it seems likely they will compete with traditional GP surgeries for patients.

Contact KONP national office for resources and advice on campaigning against the new GP-led centres/ polyclinics.

BMA shows the way
The British Medical Association (BMA) is running a campaign against the sell-off of GP surgeries

URGENT CALL TO ALL NHS CAMPAIGNERS
Join our national campaign to say:

PRIMARY CARE TRUSTS MUST
SIGN NO MORE CONTRACTS
WITH PRIVATE COMPANIES

We have reached a very dangerous turning point with privatisation of NHS services. The government is forcing Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to split their commissioning (purchasing of services) from their provider (service provision) functions to further the government's aim to develop the National Health Service as a commercial healthcare market.

This process has been speeded up with the
Transforming Community Services (TCS)
programme and the Department of Health document
"Enabling New Patterns of Provision".

What must PCTs do and by when?

The government gave PCTs a deadline of April 2009 to split commissioning from service provision functions. By October 2009 PCTs must have drawn up detailed business plans for "transforming" local services, setting out how they will promote "contestability and competition"; "increase patient choice" (another name for introducing privatisation); improve service provision and agree on an "organisational form" for their future operation.

The PCTs commissioner/provider split is an open invitation to the private sector to bid for PCT services.

PCTs must end private sector contracts
OUR HEALTH IS NOT THEIR WEALTH

Keep Our NHS Public is urging all local KONP groups and health campaigners to demand that their local PCT stop signing contracts with private companies.

Lobby your local Health Scrutiny Committee (find out where and when it meets on your local council's website)
Lobby your local Primary Care Trust Board (find out where and when they meet on their website)
Lobby your local MPs (remember, there is an election coming up next year - find your local MPs at www.writetothem.com).
Organise public meetings and tell public and patients what is happening - sign up the people who come to Keep Our NHS Public and start spreading the word. More information from UNISON on the PCT commissioner/provider split

SPECIAL APPEAL FOR FUNDS

Keep Our NHS Public is in constant need of funds to carry on its work Organising against NHS privatisation.

Please help by filling in our standing order form, and campaigning locally for trade unions, pensioners' groups, community groups and others to join or affiliate to us.

Keep Our NHS Public |
19 Vincent Terrace, London, N1 |
www.keepournhspublic.com
Remove me from this list |

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