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In fact at the end of last year the company had its eyes on the prize of a potential contract to control the £600 million a year budget to commission hospital and health care services for the population Oxfordshire: only a vociferous local campaign involving local GPs, health workers, councillors and MPs forced ministers to intervene and halt the plan. No staff
United, which bizarrely swept past a field of 17 rival bids including 14 from local GPs and NHS bidders to win the contract in Langwith and Cresswell, despite having no staff in post, no experience of delivering health care in England and no links with the community, clearly sees this low-level entry as a crucial foot in the door of NHS commissioning budgets.
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Campaigners have quickly hit back, and an angry meeting in Langwith on January 31 saw local councillors demanding answers from the Primary Care Trust on how a profit-seeking US multinational could be poised to take over local health services in one of the most deprived pit villages in the county.
The rush towards privatisation of primary care runs alongside the expansion of private Treatment Centres, which are set to scoop up even more profitable contracts to deliver the most minor and uncomplicated NHS waiting list operations, forcing local NHS hospitals towards more cuts and closures.
It has never been more urgent to campaign in defence of our NHS: with Blair's so-called "modernisation" under fire, 2006 could be the key year in which the fight to Keep Our NHS Public is won or lost. • KONP Campaign gathers pace: see inside, page 22. -Age .. .../Mobile
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