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Neal Lawson
This report outlines our own alternative proposals to the government's plan to part-privatise Royal Mail and the Post Office, we set out a positive vision for a modern post service that remains in public hands. This report has two sections. In the first we examine why privatisation is the wrong answer to the problems Royal Mail and Post Office Counters face; in the second we set out a range of governance, investment and industrial relations reforms that could form the basis of a new model for Royal Mail that avoids privatisation but enables the modernisation of the service in terms of investment and improved industrial relations.
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on 06 May 2009, 9:12:03 PM
This makes it all the more puzzling and disappointing that you did not do the same for the NHS when the gov't began privatising it several years ago. Is the NHS so much less important to the public than the postal service?
We are now faced with
-an increasing number of private GP surgeries run by corporations such as United Health (look at their record in the US)
-the outsourcing of all PCT commissioning to the commercial companies who will be running the services ie the commercial sector
will have its hands on 85% of the NHS budget, commissioning care from - itself...
- The new co-operation (not) and competition panel whose function is to enable the entry of the private sector
and those are just a small sample. Why have Compass taken so little interest in this (apart from the excellent Machines, markets and morals: the new politics of a democratic NHS)? Why a campaign for the Post and not for the NHS?
Jacky Davis
Keep Our NHS Public www.keepournhspublic.com
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