More outsourcing of NHS services: The banned word is 'monopsony' - UK Column News - 12th December 22

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Sources: https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-12th-december-2022
- NHS Confederation: Health leaders welcome new Elective Recovery Taskforce—but no guarantees
- Clip: Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting surprisingly agrees with the creeping privatisation, "as a short-term measure" to help the poor
- David Scott commentary: No real analysis of the problems going on here—coercing is not privatisation—this is monopsony (sole customer; in this case, government), so patients are the product, not the customer
- Duncan White—UK Column interview explains who is behind the incessant turmoil in the NHS
- Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (UK): Antibiotic Availability and Medicines Pricing
— Many contractors are paying inflated prices for antibiotics

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