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Showing posts with label disaster capitalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label disaster capitalism. Show all posts

Thursday, 22 August 2019

Royal Free Hospital, London NW3 £240m in debt even before 'no deal Brexit'

How healthy are our hospitals' finances even before the 'no deal Brexit' that our new Prime Minister Boris Johnson and ally Michael Gove seem hell bent on aiming for?

There is this from the freebie newspaper Camden New Journal of my former local area:

Royal Free faces debt of £240million

NHS Trust posts record deficit, with 'significant doubt' over whether it can go on

15 August, 2019 — By Tom Foot

The Royal Free Hospital 
AN NHS trust that balanced its books seven years ago has posted a record deficit and is fore- cast to have racked up £240million in repayable loans by the end of the year, an independent audit has revealed.
The Royal Free London Group’s debt is casting a “significant doubt” about its ability to “continue to provide healthcare services”, the Pricewaterhouse-Coopers report said.
The audit is buried in a 330-page Royal Free annual report that says seven loans worth £243.9m will be owed to the Department of Health and Social Care by the end of March....

Continue reading at http://camdennewjournal.com/article/royal-free-faces-debt-of-240million
Perhaps an 'advantage' for Boris in 'no deal Brexit' as an exercise in 'disaster capitalism' is that it make the prospect of dissolving the NHS more feasible?
 

Sunday, 11 August 2019

Another Tory beneficiary of huge EU funds who is pro-Brexit?

In logging off from my email, I just saw this item:

Brexit enforcer Cummings’ farm took €235,000 in EU handouts

Jamie Doward and Josh Sandiford,The Guardian
That reminds me of

Guy Standing on IDS’ Personal Welfare Dependency

Perhaps matters of European Union and Brexit also enrich these Brexit advocates in that the prospect of a 'no deal Brexit' is a prime example of 'disaster capitalism' in the making, as outlined in 2007 by Naomi Klein?

Media obsessions with 'no deal Brexit' also deflect attention from the nastiness of what Tories are doing despite the human rights that the EU has helped bring into UK law.