It's the competitive market in social care that has hammered down standards. The NHS must not follow care homes down the route of privatised provision.
The NHS needs private provision like ambulances, but needs to regulate them better, suggests a voice from the private sector.
As the government again pushes the 'mutualisation' of the NHS, Professor Dexter Whitfield argues all such transfers are privatisation.
Since court interpreting has been outsourced, wages have plummeted, quality of interpreting has dropped to a dangerous level, and the justice system has often ground to a halt. A foretaste of what to expect from outsourced services across the country?
New NHS boss Simon Stevens will inherit an NHS in crisis. Will his outsider status and private sector experience be just the new broom the NHS needs - or is that part of the problem?
Britain is an extreme oddity regarding privatisation: nowhere else in the advanced world is there such a willingness to sell everything that isn’t nailed down. Time and again the British public is ripped off and sold out by its leaders.
The migrant NHS plans are just the first and politically easiest step to ending a 'free at the point of use' NHS.
Privatisation of the NHS is gathering pace, but the public currently has little right to know how our money is spent.
The results will be terminal if coalition reforms are not reversed, warns Kailash Chand.
A new poll yet again shows the overwhelming popularity of public ownership of public services in the UK. Yet no major political parties reflects this position. Why not?
Chris Grayling discribed G4S run prison HMP Oakwood as an "excellent model for the future of the prison service". But a report from the Chief Inspector of Prisons this week tells a very different story...
New post from Putney Debates blogger John Hully, on Jeremy Hunt's alarming announcement that he plans to make the Care Quality Commission independent from "political interference."
