This one is close to home with our local council here in Cornwall planning to privatise or NHS hospital via ACO… here’s a blog from one of our own activists herein Cornwall… fighting the good fight up in parliament… Dxxx
At a meeting in Parliament today 23rd January Professor Alyson Pollock had a message for Cornwall regarding changes to the NHS.
The meeting hosted by Laura Pidcock MP Shadow Minister for Labour, had speakers including Shadow minister for Health Jon Ashworth, Dr Graham Winyard (former Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Vice President of the Faculty of Public Health, and Medical Director of the NHS England, and Professor Allyson Pollock (Director of the Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University. Both Allyson Pollock and Graham Winyard are lead names on one of the legal challenges against ACO’s. The meeting was attended by around 60 health professionals and campaigners from across the country, myself included.
I have been concerned that the changing use of acronyms by Cornwall Council is a ploy to diffuse public anger at the proposals to fragment and potentially privatise large chunks of the NHS in Cornwall. I asked the…
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