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White Paper signals more NHS privatisation & less stability
Roger McKenzie 12 Jul 10
Far from liberating the region’s NHS, the white paper proposals will tie it up in knots for years to come – they are a recipe for disaster, more privatisation and less stability.
NHS staff in the region will feel badly let down by plans to undermine national pay bargaining. In the unseemly race to do this, the Government wants employers to lead negotiations on new contracts resulting in a two-tier workforce within Trusts and anomalies across the NHS.
If the NHS is to be more efficient it needs to have stability…