Will you ask your clp to pass a motion to restore the NHS?
Please choose one of the two model motions on the NHS below if still in time to bring it to your Labour branch in time for conference.
Motion 1 focuses on the Tories' use of technology as a vehicle for privatising and downgrading our NHS, calling for Labour's technology and innovation policies to differentiate themselves from this significant trend.
Motion 2 responds to the fact the Tories are reducing NHS provision and then claiming this forces them to send NHS patients to private providers. It calls on Labour to recognise, oppose and reverse this. It is no longer enough to call this simply "underfunding" without opposing the political goals behind it.
Last year's historic Composite 8 on the NHS showed that the members’ will is to support the NHS Reinstatement Bill, and to oppose STPs, ACOs and the privatisers' charter, the Five Year Forward View. Jon Ashworth has promised a policy review. So, as Labour Party members, let's say it loud and clear: we want the policies of Composite 8 to be fully implemented. We want a universal, comprehensive NHS that is publicly-funded, owned and provided. Now is our chance to do that – by getting the maximum number of CLPs to submit strong resolutions on saving the NHS.
Please take a minute or two to fill in our form to let us know you’re tabling and to help get organised around this.
Model motion 1:
Strengthening Labour's commitment to full NHS renationalisation
On 9 August, Matt Hancock’s £450m NHS IT funding promise was revealed as a framework for multiplying GP business opportunities for digital service providers.
On 14 August, patient safety concerns forced NHS England (NHSE) to suspend expansion of the Babylon app GP At Hand, criticised by Labour. These apps cherry-pick the healthy, excluding those who most need care, and are destabilising GP surgeries, the very core of patient-centred care, by requiring users to de-register from their GP.
This CLP notes that 'digitalising care' for profit is a major facet of healthcare privatisation and deprofessionalisation and a key plank of the NHSE Five Year Forward View (FYFV): a blueprint to standardise health services for the benefit of transnational corporations, as is well-documented. In Somerset, Birmingham and the North, healthcare transnationals are transforming diagnostic, clinical and digital services into insurable, US-style managed care packages.
Labour reiterates its commitment to the policies set out in Composite 8 at 2017 conference, including opposition to the FYFV. At the earliest opportunity, Labour in government must eliminate all aspects of the NHS market created since 1990: not just clinical services but throughout the NHS. Each part - from cleaning to planning - substantially affects patients’ wellbeing.
In opposition, Labour must fight to ensure that digital health is subject to rigorous evidence-based criteria and does not further compromise patient safety, especially in seriously under-provisioned areas like mental health.
The shadow health team and Labour councils must actively implement and promote all elements of this resolution.
(248 words)
Motion 1 focuses on the Tories' use of technology as a vehicle for privatising and downgrading our NHS, calling for Labour's technology and innovation policies to differentiate themselves from this significant trend.
Motion 2 responds to the fact the Tories are reducing NHS provision and then claiming this forces them to send NHS patients to private providers. It calls on Labour to recognise, oppose and reverse this. It is no longer enough to call this simply "underfunding" without opposing the political goals behind it.
Last year's historic Composite 8 on the NHS showed that the members’ will is to support the NHS Reinstatement Bill, and to oppose STPs, ACOs and the privatisers' charter, the Five Year Forward View. Jon Ashworth has promised a policy review. So, as Labour Party members, let's say it loud and clear: we want the policies of Composite 8 to be fully implemented. We want a universal, comprehensive NHS that is publicly-funded, owned and provided. Now is our chance to do that – by getting the maximum number of CLPs to submit strong resolutions on saving the NHS.
Please take a minute or two to fill in our form to let us know you’re tabling and to help get organised around this.
Model motion 1:
Strengthening Labour's commitment to full NHS renationalisation
On 9 August, Matt Hancock’s £450m NHS IT funding promise was revealed as a framework for multiplying GP business opportunities for digital service providers.
On 14 August, patient safety concerns forced NHS England (NHSE) to suspend expansion of the Babylon app GP At Hand, criticised by Labour. These apps cherry-pick the healthy, excluding those who most need care, and are destabilising GP surgeries, the very core of patient-centred care, by requiring users to de-register from their GP.
This CLP notes that 'digitalising care' for profit is a major facet of healthcare privatisation and deprofessionalisation and a key plank of the NHSE Five Year Forward View (FYFV): a blueprint to standardise health services for the benefit of transnational corporations, as is well-documented. In Somerset, Birmingham and the North, healthcare transnationals are transforming diagnostic, clinical and digital services into insurable, US-style managed care packages.
Labour reiterates its commitment to the policies set out in Composite 8 at 2017 conference, including opposition to the FYFV. At the earliest opportunity, Labour in government must eliminate all aspects of the NHS market created since 1990: not just clinical services but throughout the NHS. Each part - from cleaning to planning - substantially affects patients’ wellbeing.
In opposition, Labour must fight to ensure that digital health is subject to rigorous evidence-based criteria and does not further compromise patient safety, especially in seriously under-provisioned areas like mental health.
The shadow health team and Labour councils must actively implement and promote all elements of this resolution.
(248 words)
MOTION 1 REFERENCES. |
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(https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/alan-milburns-just-made-the-argument-for-markets-inside-the-nhs)
References (more to follow): Matt Hancock's £450m digital business market: "NHS Digital to fling half a billion quid at new GP procurement framework Says modular approach will bring new business to market", Rebecca Hill, The Register, 10/08/2018 GP at Hand on hold: “Expansion of controversial GP app has been blocked”, Practice Business, 16/10/2018 “Update: NHS England advises against immediate GP at Hand expansion”, Ben Heather, Health Service Journal, 13/10/2018 How apps are undermining GP services:
"'digitalising care' for profit is a major facet of healthcare privatisation and deprofessionalisation": A few links from McKinsey & Co, a major promoter of technology-led healthcare privatisation. "[...] and a key plank of the NHSE Five Year Forward View (FYFV)": “NHS Digital plays a central role in NHS England’s five year plan (the Five Year Forward View), of which a core aim is to make patients responsible for managing their own healthcare and use of health services. This approach depends in part on the introduction of new technologies [...]” http://www.patients4nhs.org.uk/digital-nhs/ "a blueprint to standardise health services for the benefit of transnational corporations, as is well-documented": Policy Analyst Stewart Player has done the groundbreaking research in this field. See especially: "Developing Narratives", 19/10/2018 "Labour reiterates its commitment to the policies set out in Composite 8 at 2017 conference, including opposition to the FYFV": Composite 8. Model motion 2:
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