of provision of other forms of care, leaving this to other Trusts.
The freedoms and privileges to be granted to the top-performing hospitals are likely to widen the gap between them and the other non-Foundation Trusts, creating an even bigger gap between the 'haves' and "have-nots' within the NHS.
Neither Foundation Trusts nor the Regulator are under any obligation to pay attention to issues of equity in the distribution of health care services. What do ministers mean when they say Foundations will be 'locally controlled'? Very little: the Foundation Trusts are in . essence accountable to the Regulator, and not to local people.
There is no requirement to show any Piers Mostyn A BBC film about police racism has made public what black people have known for decades. "The Secret Policeman" showed eight officers on a training course routinely expressing violent racist and fascist views.
Typical was PC Pulling, who stated that murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence "fucking deserved it", and those responsible should be given diplomatic immunity.
Police chiefs and ministers expressed shock, disgust and a determination to root out racist behaviour. But their responses demonstrated a refusal to address the real issues raised.
Manchester police chief Alan Green daired that the "vast majority" of officers are not prejudiced. How can that be if they allow such routine bigotry to thrive?
Black Chief Inspector Leroy Logan stated, "we are in a crisis ... racism has been driven underground". Yet surely it's brazen display in a police institution shows how open and tolerated the culture is.
And Labour's former Home Office minister John Denham even laid some of the blame at the door of "the very extremist and unrepresentative Muslims who have clearly associated themselves with terrorism", as though Al Qaeda has been killing black youths in police custody.
More credibly Manchester's top black officer Superintendant Martin Harding warned that, "People with extreme views are trying to infiltrate the police"
This was followed by a BP claim of large numbers of members in the force -not an idle boast
But fascist organisations don't make the police force a haven for racism: it's racism that makes the police a haven for fascists.
Worst of all was David Blunkett denouncing the BBC for exposing violent cop bigotry and the Home Office's (as George Galloway put it) "Gilligan-style intimidation operation to have the programme suppressed".
This comes in the wake of a succession of scandals over police racism against blac officers, culminating in the collapse of the
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