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BILLIONAIRE Sir Richard Branson has successfully sued the NHS over missing out on an £82million contract. Virgin Care failed to win the three-year continuation of a deal to provide children’s medical services in Surrey. Instead the contract was given to a consortium of NHS providers and a social enterprise. Virgin Care is not without its critics.
The mum of a severly disabled child spoke out in Wiltshire, when her daughter stopped getting appointments when the NHS lost the children's services contract to virgin Care!
Virgin Care has a further 400 contacts in England. In each of the Sustainability and Transformation Partnership areas (developing into Accountant-led Care Sytems (ACS)) where a contract has been awarded to Virgin Care, the company has a seat on the Programme Board. The Programme Board is the entity which is planning how the integration of social care and NHS services are organised for that footprint. All private providers of all types to the NHS and Local Authority social care commissioners, as well as NHS Bodies themselves (CCGs, Hospital and Ambulance NHS Trusts and NHS England), are represented with a voice on this Board. Do we want 'partners' like Virgin Care, in the NHS? How can free and fair discussions go on, if there is a threat from one of the 'partners'? The settlement, which was awarded in secret, is split between the 6 CCS, NHS England and the Local Authority involved and rumoured to be more than £1m .
But nurses have suffered the longest wage freeze in history.
At a time when GP surgeries and Hospitals are closing, clinics are shutting their doors and CCGs are asking patients 'We are likely to forecast a deficit, what can the NHS cut?,' this is an outrage
Posted by jeffrey davie on 01 December 2017
