Doctor's union speaks up for the NHS.

Of the many plans of the Tory government to privatise the public sector one of the more prominent is the stealth privatisation of the NHS. The plan is relatively simple, under cover of all sorts of positive buzzwords Health Secretary Andrew Lansley is pushing for GPs to take on control of chunks of the NHS's budget but GPs are busy enough as it is so it is very likely they will pass on these duties on to private contractors. The motivation to do this is a big pay raise, big enough that it will absorb the fee GPs will pay the contractors and still leave them better off.

This was a pretty clever plan, doctors, in the main, certainly didn't get into their profession to help people or at least people who aren't themselves. But maybe even their greed has a limit. While this could be a holdout for an even bigger bribe it would seem the doctor's union isn't too fond of the plan calling it a slash and burn approach. I don't know if this is going anywhere but Doctors potentially turning down more money is a pretty big thing in itself.

Well... theres something you don't see every day.

A bull somehow managed to end up at a hospital.

Health Secretary Andrew Lansley is expected to announce efforts to privatise hospital grounds because bull attacks on private hospitals are unheard of.

Tory MP opposes NHS Trusts generating funds.

Ok ok, as a right winger her main opposition to a hospital making money (aside from the fact its not making her a profit) is that a ward was used for filming a high budget porno. Her attack rather loses any point though when it turns out the hospital gained a tidy sum from renting the ward out to a "film company" and that it was only discovered it was a porn company after the fact. If it caused so little disruption as to only be noticed later on its difficult to see why the Tory opposes it other than prudish assholishness.