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P3s - This page is the source for generic information supporting the local STOP THE P3 HOSPITAL campaigns.
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- Media Releases 2007
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Action Resources
On June 23rd, take the pledge in North Bay, Niagara and Sault Ste. Marie to keep our hospitals 100% public. For more information:
Niagara Region
Sault Ste Marie
(June 18, 2007)
New information from the McGuinty government is available about the new Sault Ste. Marie's hospital deal. The deal is clearly a P3 privatization project.
Frank Dobson was Minister of Health in England and saw that P3's were destroying the NHS. Come hear him!
Over 96% vote for 100% public hospitals in Sarnia and the Sault this weekend
300 Nurses Ask McGuinty to Stop P3 Hospitals: Joint Letter
Join Sarnia's campaign to send a message on P3s.
Media Release and the Doctors' letter condemning Ontario government's version of P3s
Media Release:
Marilyn Birmingham's presentation to the Health Action Assembly in November 2005
Toronto No to P3s Campaign
We have the following campaign material available for you to download , photocopy and distribute.
Fact Sheet on the proposed P3 Hospital and what you can do to stop it!
August 4, 2004
The Trojan Horse toured Ontario the summer and fall of 2004 warning of the dangers of P3s and hospital privatization.
P3 Fact Sheets / Briefing Notes
Up to date information on the crisis at Brampton's P3 hospital. Distributed at the December 9th rally in Brampton
Province Needs to Help Out Hospital and Stop Secrecy
Economist Hugh Mackenzie: "The [Ontario] government has resorted to cover-up tactics to evade public scrutiny.
The Assessment: PDF
(June 18, 2007)
Revealed through court-ordered release of secret documents.
Disclosed Documents on Costs PDF
Memo of Facts: from Lewis Auerbach, former Director of Audit Operations - Office of the A.G. of Canada PDF
Memo of Facts:
from OHC lawyer Steven Shrybman PDF
(May 9, 2007)
Current information on the status of P3 projects
McGuinty plans private hospitals across Ontario
Chart of advance of P3s in Ontario (as of Jan 16, 2006)
$3.3 Billion in Hospital Projects Privatized By McGuinty Government:
PDF HTML
"Truth Serum" Report:
PDF (August 26, 2005)
Premier McGuinty is breaking his promises.
WORD (May 2005)
Our new fact sheet on how Public Private Partnership hospitals in Britain have had to cut nursing staff by 12%.
Back to the "Good Old Days", Private Public Partnerships and other Myths
The British Medical Journal has published its findings on the failure of P3 hospitals in Scotland.
HTML (March 9, 2004)
Full British Medical Journal article.
HTML
Responses to the article.
HTML
P3 Reports
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| description | date | |
| Ontario Health Coalition | When Public Relations Trumps Public Responsibility | Summary Media release Full Report |
The Evolution of Cost Overruns, Service Cuts and Cover-Up in the Brampton Hospital P3 |
January 7, 2008 | |
| OPSEU Local 479 | Risky Business II - The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre: Ontario's first P3 hospital | Full report: PDF |
Hidden costs, security breaches, poor design, two-tier health delivery and very expensive water: one year later at the secretive
Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, Ontario’s first P3 Hospital |
November 23, 2007 | |
| OPSEU Local 479 | Risky Business - The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre: Ontario's first P3 hospital | Full report: PDF |
Report finds that the Royal Ottawa Hospital P3 was behind schedule, opened with almost 100 fewer beds than promised and was $51 million over budget |
June 22, 2007 | |
| Ontario Health Coalition | Flawed, Failed, Abandoned, 100 P3's Canadian and International Evidence | Full report: PDF |
Report finds many
troubling aspects to P3s, including:
cost overruns & delays, secrecy, design and construction flaws, quality problems & service cuts, legal disputes, failed contracts & bankruptcies |
April 7, 2005 | |
| Hugh Mackenzie | Financing Canada's Hospitals: Public Alternatives to P3s | Summary Media release Full Report |
Economist Hugh Mackenzie shows that
Brampton's new hospital will cost $175 million dollars more as a P3
than if it were built with public financing. |
October 2004 | |
| Lewis Auerbach, Arthur Donner, Douglas D. Peters, Monica Townson, and Armine Yalnizyan | Funding Hospital Infrastructure: Why P3s Don't Work, and What Will | Full report: PDF or News release announcement: PDF |
A new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives |
November 2003 | |
| Guardian Newspaper Series | Private Finance Initiative: Analysis | HTML |
Series of reports from Britain's Guardian newspaper examining that country's version of P3s. |
June-July 2003 to present | |
| Natalie Mehra | First Hospitals... Next Schools - Why education workers should look more closely at P3s | HTML |
Article by Natalie Mehra, OHC Provincial Co-ordinator |
April 22, 2003 | |
| M. Dunnigan and A. Pollack | Downsizing of acute inpatient beds associated with private finance initiative: Scotland's case study | HTML |
British Medical Journal: article on the impact of the Private Finance Initiative (the British version of P3s):
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April 23, 2003 | |
| A. Pollock, J. Shaoul and N. Vickers | Private finance and "value for money" in NHS hospitals: a policy in search of a rationale? | HTML |
British Medical Journal: article on the impact of the Private Finance Initiative (the British version of P3s):
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May 18, 2002 | |
| P.J. Devereaux, Peter T.L. Choi, Gordon H. Guyatt et. al. | A systematic review and meta-analysis of studies comparing mortality rates of private for-profit and private not-for-profit hospitals | HTML Short Article by author Gordon H. Guyatt |
published in Canadian Medical Association Journal, McMaster Study Shows Mortality Rates Higher in For-Profit Hospitals
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May 18, 2002 | |
| A. Pollock, S. Player and S. Godden | How private finance is moving primary care into corporate ownership | HTML |
British Medical Journal: article on the privatization of primary care in Britain:
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April 21, 2001 | |
| A M Pollock and M G Dunnigan | Editorial: Beds in the NHS | HTML |
Editorial in the British Medical Journal: on the impact of the Private Finance Initiative (the British version of P3s):
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19 February 2000 | |
| A. Pollock, J. Shaoul and N. Vickers | The private finance initiative: The politics of the private finance initiative and the new NHS | Part 1: HTMLPDF Part 2: HTMLPDF Part 3: HTMLPDF Part 4: HTMLPDF |
British Medical Journal: article on the impact of the Private Finance Initiative (the British version of P3s):
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July 3, 1999 | |
| Dr. Allyson Pollock and Declan Gaffney | Pump priming the PFI: Why are publicly financed hospital schemes being subsidised? | |
From British publication: Public Money and Management
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Jan-Mar 1999 | |
| interviewer Andrew Dodd guest: Stephen Leeder |
Public Patients, Private Profit | HTML |
Transcript of an Australian radio documentary on P3 hospitals in that country.
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20 October 1996 |
P3 Media Releases (2007)
Economist Hugh Mackenzie: "The [Ontario] government has resorted to cover-up tactics to evade public scrutiny.
The Assessment: PDF
(June 18, 2007)
MEDIA RELEASE: Extraordinary Costs of the Brampton P3 hospital
Revealed through court-ordered release of secret documents.
P3 Media Releases (2006)
Royal Ottawa Hospital P3: Hospital dramatically more expensive due to privatization
Backgrounder II: Ontario's First Two Privatized P3 Hospitals:OHC Cost Increases and Delays PDF
Backgrounder III: ROH: Ready or not? PDF
(November 2, 2006)
Secret Tenders Issued by McGuinty Government to Private Companies for P3 Hospitals
Over 96% vote for 100% public hospitals in Sarnia and the Sault this weekend
300 Nurses Ask McGuinty to Stop P3 Hospitals: Joint Letter
97.7% of 28,658 People Vote to Keep Hamilton's Hospitals 100% Public:
Media Release:
P3 Media Releases (2005)
97% of 7,396 People Vote to Keep Woodstock's Hospital 100% Public:
97% of 8,824 People Vote to Keep North Bay s Hospital 100% public
3.3 Billion in Hospital Projects Privatized By McGuinty Government:
98% Vote to Keep Hospital Public
98% Vote to Keep Hospital Public in First Plebiscite to Stop P3 Hospitals:
More than 12,400 Vote in St. Catharines
PDF HTML (June 2005)
P3 Media Releases (2004)
Over $100 Million Wasted in Secretive P3 Hospital Deal.
HTML (March 15, 2004)
The OHC's notes on the doucment:
- On the Record: Pre-Election Liberal Criticisms of P3 Hospitals- HTML
- Table comparing the Liberal P3 model to public hospital model. HTML Table
P3 Media Releases (2003)
to Health Minister George Smitherman expressing concern at indicators that the McGuinty government may renege on commitments to cancel plans to build P3 hospitals and scrap privatized MRI/CT delivery.
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