Ileach 23.05.13 Reply to Alan Reid MP

I was grateful for an Ileach reply from Alan Reid as he refuses to answer my question asking where the coalition has spent the £3 billion they clawed back from last year's NHS budget. So as not to bore the pants of Ileach readers, I didn't include in my last offering, the list of 63 LibDem Peers who voted on April 25th to force privatisation of the NHS in England; but this and details of private companies making profits from NHS funding can be found on xraypat.blogspot.co.uk The new Health and Social Care Act replaces the UK government's "duty to PROVIDE care" for patients with a "duty to PROMOTE" healthcare. Services are removed from skilled NHS providers and handed to those with experience of running airlines or busses. Services in England must be put out to tender to find the cheapest. Whilst private companies like Virgin are making profits from our taxes thousands of nurses are being sacked. 6,000 NHS beds have been closed since the coalition came to power and NHS hospitals can now have 49% of their beds for private patients. MPs and Lords with shares in private companies providing NHS Services, voted in favour of private enterprise in order to profiteer from sickness and disease. Can that be morally justified? NHS cash is allocated by the government, but instead of it all going towards patient care, chunks of it are being trousered by greedy shareholders, making them rich during a time when poor peoples' benefits are being squeezed. Not privatisation? What is it then Mr Reid? NHS staff and funding are decimated to the point of collapse! So they tell us we "need" the private sector to save it as there is no money to improve it. So where has the £3billion of UK taxes gone Mr Reid? I am concerned about Mr Reid's complacency and acceptance of the disappearance of this cash.

1) I understand via Unison, that in Suffolk, Serco under-bid the Community NHS Trust by 7% (£10million) to provide the same service and cut staff by 15%.
 2) As far as I can assertain, Harmoni earns £100million a year from NHS contracts and was recently criticised for not providing enough doctors Out Of Hours. They have 13 directors paid £345,000 an increase over 4 yrs 379.17% Annual turnover £32,764,000 Annual Profit £1,043,000
 3) In the name of efficiency, NHS Direct in England was replaced by NHS 111 where untrained call centre employees replaced qualified nurses. It is cheaper to pay a minimum wage, but do we want medical advice from people who don't have much of a clue?
 4) NHS funding of private sector increased by £3 billion in 6 years (Guardian)
 5) LIBDEM PEERS who voted on April 25th to force the Privatisation of the NHS Addington, Lord Alderdice, Lord Allan of Hallam, Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, Lord Avebury, Lord Barker, Baroness Benjamin, Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury, Baroness Brinton, Baroness Burnett, Lord Chidgey, Lord Clement-Jones, Lord Cotter, Lord Dholakia, Lord Doocey, Baroness Dykes, Lord Falkner of Margravine, Baroness Garden of Frognal, Baroness German, Lord Hamwee, Baroness Harris of Richmond, Baroness Hussain, Lord Hussein-Ece, Baroness Jolly, Baroness Kirkwood of Kirkhope, Lord Kramer, Baroness Lee of Trafford, Lord Linklater of Butterstone, Baroness Loomba, Lord Maclennan of Rogart, Lord Maddock, Baroness Mar and Kellie, Earl Marks of Henley-on-Thames, Lord McNally, Lord Miller of Chilthorne Domer, Baroness Newby, Lord Northover, Baroness Parminter, Baroness Phillips of Sudbury, Lord Randerson, Baroness Razzall, Lord Roberts of Llandudno, Lord Roper, Lord Scott of Needham Market, Baroness Sharkey, Lord Sharp of Guildford, Baroness Shipley, Lord Shutt of Greetland, Lord Stephen, Lord Stoneham of Droxford, Lord Storey, Lord Taverne, Lord Teverson, Lord Thomas of Gresford, Lord Thomas of Winchester, Baroness Tope, Lord Tyler, Lord Wallace of Saltaire, Lord Wallace of Tankerness, Lord Walmsley, Baroness Watson of Richmond, Baroness Williams of Crosby, Lord Willis of Knaresborough.