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Unite refutes the Department of Health 'Myth Buster' document

6 September 2011

Commenting on the Department of Health's Myth buster published 6/9/11 on the day of the report stage of the Health and Social Care Bill, Rachael Maskell, Unite national officer for health said:

"The Department of Health (DH) is continuing to push a wholly inaccurate spin on what is behind the Health and Social Care Bill. Their 'Myth buster' deserves a myth buster of its own, based on what will really happen to the NHS.

"To say administrative costs will reduce by a third, when 162 organisations are about to be replaced with over 500 new bodies beggars belief.

"That vast swathes won't eventually end up being run by profit-driven foreign owned companies is also a lie. Reports leaked this weekend show the DH are in talks with a German company to run 20 hospitals and the likes of American multinational UnitedHealth are licking their lips in anticipation of the profits coming their way when the NHS is opened up to EU competition law.

"Their NHS reforms have been slated by almost the whole of the medical and other health professions.

"David Cameron promised no more top down reorganisations of the NHS, yet these reforms are already causing chaos in the NHS, and are, in reality , an untested ideological gamble with an organisation that is the most equitable, cost effective and comprehensive health care system in the world . How much more spin can Cameron put on this Bill which clearly hands the NHS over from the state to the private sector?"



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