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    nhs england is a quango not nhs service provider. Tried to sue nhs staff to silence them Archived Message

    Posted by dan on April 25, 2019, 5:58 am

    Please contibute to the public consultation re privatisation - see bottom of page.

    https://keepournhspublic.com/news/nhs-england-is-a-threat/?fbclid=IwAR0YKn1aDs2BJRsV99tlGxThsME4IQND_QBNgSLCOo2IsqlnuB6-Ao6XKoc

    Earlier this month NHS England threatened to sue Oxford University Hospitals for libel after staff there spoke out against the body’s decision to award their PET-CT cancer scanning service to private company InHealth. Clinicians said the process of removing their scanners and the staff trained to operate them would “undoubtedly cause clinical harm”

    Lawyers for NHS England said the trust’s concerns (which were shared by doctors, MPs of all parties and cancer patients) amounted to defamation. The decision to remove the contract from the NHS will now be reviewed by the health secretary who could refer it to the Independent Review Panel (part of statutory appeal process).

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