Posts Tagged private sector
BMA campaign to shut out independent sector from NHS is misguided and foolhardy
Posted by James Gubb in Economics, Health on 12/02/2010
The BMA today extend their ‘Look After Our NHS’ campaign, to stop commercially run firms providing NHS care and end the market in the NHS, to patients.
Leaflets will be distributed containing stories such as a 70-year-old lady who is forced to go to a treatment centre run by a private provider and suffers ‘complications’.
The BMA are shamelessly politicising health care on cherry-picked evidence.
La Mala educación
Posted by Nick Cowen in Education, Foreign Affairs on 20/09/2007
Hugo Chavez certainly knows how to shore up his socialist consensus in Venezuela for the long term: ban all schools from teaching anything else. He has already ensured that college level students won’t be able to study medicine without first pouring through Marx’s Das Kapital and some of Fidel Castro’s speeches. But his tactics for co-opting private schools into his preferred ideology could really do with some refining. After all, his aggressive stance is attracting a lot of bad press. If he had only studied New Labour tactics, he could have learnt how to bring many private schools to their knees without anyone noticing!