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« on: Yesterday at 07:10:42 »

Looking at the governments recent decision to abolish NHS England deemed a quango; is the new Briitish Railways just another quango overseen by the Department of Transport.
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« Reply #1 on: Yesterday at 07:26:57 »

Looking at the governments recent decision to abolish NHS England deemed a quango; is the new Briitish Railways just another quango overseen by the Department of Transport.

Oh - the same irony that rail franchising is declared dead and the TOCs (Train Operating Company) will be nationalised, whereas flavour of the month in bus operation is a network designed by the public sector, with routes or areas operated by franchises?
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« Reply #2 on: Yesterday at 07:54:37 »

Looking at the governments recent decision to abolish NHS England deemed a quango; is the new Briitish Railways just another quango overseen by the Department of Transport.

Yes.
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« Reply #3 on: Yesterday at 14:14:51 »

My reading of the debate is that Labour are re-nationalising the railways, and re-nationalising ... erm, the National Health Service.

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« Reply #4 on: Yesterday at 15:25:33 »

My reading of the debate is that Labour are re-nationalising the railways, and re-nationalising ... erm, the National Health Service.

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When was the NHS privatised?
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« Reply #5 on: Yesterday at 15:26:58 »

Depends on your definition of NHS England body
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« Reply #6 on: Yesterday at 15:49:54 »

Depends on your definition of NHS England body

I'd suggest it depends rather more on your understanding of what constitutes privatisation.
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« Reply #7 on: Yesterday at 16:02:19 »

Maybe so, so tell me - what is the value of external contracts entered into by NHS England? And why they aren't seen as privatisation (even by 'the back door')?
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« Reply #8 on: Today at 06:41:00 »

Looking at the governments recent decision to abolish NHS England deemed a quango; is the new Briitish Railways just another quango overseen by the Department of Transport.

Oh - the same irony that rail franchising is declared dead and the TOCs (Train Operating Company) will be nationalised, whereas flavour of the month in bus operation is a network designed by the public sector, with routes or areas operated by franchises?

No.

The first phase of GBR (Great British Railways) is to bring all the National Rail franchise under on body, GBR.   Phase 2 will be the reshaping of the operators, it could see all the London 'metro' services handed to TfL» (Transport for London - about); consolidating Southern, SWT (South West Trains) and SE outer services into one operator, the interesting one will be the proposals for a Hampshire IoW unitary authority which looks like transport is part of that proposal, there are likely to be others, Buckinghamshire??.   Cities like Manchester, Birmingham all local services handed to the metro mayors to run.

The Labour Government move with NHS England seems more about devolving power to Health Care Trusts than micro management by the men from the Ministry the same is for GBR ................ However the men from the Ministry tend to be  control freaks, hopefully the Government will be able to prise control out of the dyeing hands of the Civil Servants
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