Opposing the setting up of Accountable Care in Cornwall
This CLP notes:
This CLP resolves:
This CLP notes:
- that Accountable Care Organisations/Systems (ACO/Ss) are being introduced without adequate public involvement or consultation; and implemented beyond any legal framework, creating problems of governance and accountability;
- that there is no robust evidence base to support their use in the context of the English NHS;
- that they are likely to replace experienced clinicians with new lower-skilled and lower-paid roles, and undermine NHS terms and conditions of employment;
- that multiple procurements will be replaced by a single, major, long-term contract to provide health and social care services for Cornwall;
- the draft model contract for ACO/Ss published by NHS England allows for, and is likely to attract, bids from multinational corporations.
- allow private companies to profiteer from the stripping of NHS assets such as land and buildings;
- incentivise the rationing of services and – even more concerning – denial of care;
- facilitate increasing privatisation of the NHS by giving private corporations new roles and powers to shape the NHS in their interests.
This CLP resolves:
- to oppose, and to call on all sections of the local party to oppose, the setting up of an Accountable Care Organisation/System in Cornwall.
- to campaign, and to call on all sections of the local party to campaign, for:
- The £100 million debt write-off which the government is offering as an incentive to set up the Cornwall ACO to be written off immediately with no strings attached;
- Increased funding of the NHS and personal social care;
- No change without full public involvement and consultation;
- New legislation that ends the marketisation and fragmentation of the NHS, and re-establishes public bodies and NHS services that are accountable to Parliament and local communities – legislation such as that drafted in the NHS Reinstatement Bill 2016-17.