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Free Shipping Over $99*
You may return most new, unopened items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. We'll also pay the return shipping costs if the return is a result of our error (you received an incorrect or defective item, etc.).
You should expect to receive your refund within four weeks of giving your package to the return shipper, however, in many cases you will receive a refund more quickly. This time period includes the transit time for us to receive your return from the shipper (5 to 10 business days), the time it takes us to process your return once we receive it (3 to 5 business days), and the time it takes your bank to process our refund request (5 to 10 business days).
Free standard shipping on orders over $99
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Our return/exchange policy is as follows:
* You have 20 days to return merchandise for a full refund and 30 days to exchange. Please Note: 20 days begins from the date of your invoice (receipt). Your receipt is your packing slip, so you need to keep it in case you might need it. We have added 5 days to our normal in store policy to account for the days spent in shipping. We must receive your request for a return or exchange by the 20th or 30th day in order for it to be accepted.
Here is what you will need to do:
* E-mail us at firstname.lastname@example.com, or call us at 314-849-4454 to receive a Return Merchandise Authorization (RMA). If you do not reach us, please leave a detailed message with your name, contact information, and what your message is regarding. (Please be patient. Right now we are a small organization, and we will do our best to get back to you within 24 hours).
* Please send back the merchandise with a copy of your receipt (packing slip) as well as a note, explaining the reason for your return or exchange and include your RMA number on it. Also, please write the RMA number that you were given on the outside of the box you are sending back.
* Packages being returned must be prepaid. SunshineDaydream.com does not accept C.O.D. packages.
* You can return your package using your preferred carrier.
* When the package is received, please allow 1-3 business days for your merchandise to be exchanged and re-shipped or for a refund on the original credit card used to be credited. (After a credit card has been credited, it can take up to 5-10 business days for it to appear on your account.)
* The customer is responsible for all return shipping costs, including insurance if you choose. The shipping costs are not refundable except in an instance of you receiving incorrect or defective merchandise. Please Note: SunshineDaydream.com inspects our merchandise thoroughly for defects before shipping. We reserve the right to deny a return upon receipt of the merchandise if we feel, (in any way) that the merchandise has been worn, damaged or tampered with by the consumer. All orders are subject to a 10% restocking fee for returns. Because of this, we request that if you receive merchandise that is defective, damaged or incorrect, please contact us within 5 days upon receipt, before use, in order for us to serve you best.
To return, send your package back to:
Sunshine Daydream 244 Indacom Dr St. Peters, MO 63376 Attention: SunshineDaydream.com
You should be able to track your package through your carrier, so don't forget to get a tracking number through them.
The following items are final sale and not eligible for a return or refund, no exceptions:
Detox Products, Smoke Shop, smoking accessories, glass items, earrings, Previously marked down (sale) items
Sunshine Daydream is proud to now offer a free shipping option for all USA orders over $99. Sunshine Daydream ships all orders via the United States Postal Service or UPS. Free Shipping applies to 48 contiguous states only. Orders will be processed with the cheapest shipping option with delivery times ranging from 3-16 business days. Expedited services such as 1-3 day and overnight shipping are also available for an additional charge. Shipping times are estimated by the shipping carrier and are not guaranteed through Sunshine Daydream.
To be able to offer Free Shipping on orders to the 48 contiguous states, Sunshine Daydream requires a minimum purchase of $99 per order. You may still complete a purchase for less than the minimum order amount; however, you will be required to pay shipping charges.
Due to local laws or carrier restrictions, some products may not be able to ship to your country, state, city or county. The following products cannot be shipped to the listed regions.
Kratom: Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Sarasota County (Florida), San Diego (California), Oceanside (California), Alton (Illinois), Jerseyville (Illinois), Edwardsville (Illinois), Columbus (Mississippi), Union (Mississippi), Ascension (Louisiana), Franklin (Louisiana), Rapides (Louisiana), Internationally
THCA: Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Internationally
Some of our products require delivery with an adult signature by law. We do not charge for this but must be included to verify age upon delivery.
We value your privacy and work hard to guarantee that 100% of your information is safe with us. One part of that process includes discreet shipping and billing. When you order from us there is no need to worry about anyone knowing what is inside your package. Each order is packaged in a plain brown or white box with no store or product information listed. To protect this even further our return address on your shipping label will read "Sunshine Daydream". We promise that no mention of products inside will be displayed on your package.
We do not ship international shipments.
All purchases made from our site will appear on your statements as "Sunshine Daydream " however there will be no mention of "smoke shop" or anything similar to protect your privacy. Product names will NOT be listed on your statements, just the order total, date, and "Sunshine Daydream ". SHIPPING CARRIER: UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE (USPS) & UPS :
Sunshine Daydream is proud to ship our packages using the United States Postal Service (USPS) & UPS. We have found these carriers to be the most cost effective solution for our customers. We currently offer economy and expedited shipping options for both domestic and international orders. Shipping rates and estimated times are received from the shipping carrier and automatically calculated during checkout based on the geographic location of the recipient and the size/weight of the shipment. Adult signature may be required upon delivery.
USPS Priority Mail and UPS services offer full tracking capabilities, which includes updates once a package is shipped, reaches a shipping hub and once the item is delivered. USPS Ground Advantage (formerly First Class Mail) also includes tracking but is limited to when the package is shipped and when it is delivered. Tracking numbers will be sent to you via email as soon as your order is fulfilled.
Please allow up to 24 hours for your tracking information to update after shipment confirmation is received.
We do our very best to ship orders as quickly as possible. Orders received before 12:00 PM CT on Monday - Friday are normally shipped the same day. Normal shipping days are Monday - Friday only and do not include national holidays. Any orders received after 12:00 PM CT on Friday are shipped first thing Monday morning. This schedule may vary slightly during extremely busy times such as sales events, holidays and inclement weather. Estimated shipping times provided by the carrier at checkout refer to the number of days to receive your package after the shipment has been picked up from our stores and warehouse in Missouri.
Packages shipped domestically via USPS Priority Mail, UPS Ground are typically delivered within 2-3 business days. Although Ground Advantage (formerly First Class Mail) offers a more economical shipping solution, delivery times can be considerably longer than Priority Mail, UPS. Packages shipped domestically via USPS Ground Advantage mail are typically delivered in 2-9 days depending on the distance from our distribution center in Missouri (not including Hawaii and Alaska). These times are estimated by the United States Postal Service and are not guaranteed through Sunshine Daydream. Shipments delivered outside the estimated delivery date are not the responsibility of Sunshine Daydream and will not be refunded. Estimated shipping times may vary slightly during extremely busy times such as sales events and holidays.
NOTE: Products sold by third parties may have their own shipping policies and will vary from times estimated by Sunshine Daydream at checkout.
There are several reasons a package could be returned to our warehouse as undeliverable to address. These reasons may include items that are too big for the PO box, incorrect address, incorrect address format, failed delivery attempts, damaged during transit, other transportation problems, unable to export or other address problems.
When packages are returned as undeliverable you will be contacted via email and provided with a full refund less shipping charges and a 10% restocking fee.
Orders that are returned to Sunshine Daydreamas undeliverable are not able to be re-shipped. If you would still like to purchase items that were undeliverable, you are welcome to place a new order on our website.
If you suspect your package is undeliverable you will need to wait until the package is received back to our warehouse to receive a refund. However, you are welcome to place a new order in the meantime and your original order will be refunded as soon as it is returned.
All items purchased from Sunshine Daydream are made pursuant to a shipment contract. This means that the risk of loss and title for such items pass to you upon tender of the item to the carrier.
If your tracking information shows that your package has been delivered but you have not received your package you will need to contact your local carrier's branch to resolve the issue.
Sunshine Daydream offers a free pickup option for our local customers at checkout. If selected, you will receive an email with pickup instructions within 1 hour when your order is ready to be picked up at one of our stores.
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On occasion, you may be able to place a product in your shopping cart and submit your order for processing, but your order is subsequently cancelled due to unavailability of product. You acknowledge that products may sell quickly and there may be a short period of time after an order has been submitted, but where the product is no longer available. You agree that we may cancel your order after you have received an Order Confirmation without penalty.
On very rare occasions, you may receive a Shipping Confirmation from us, but the product is no longer available in our inventory. You agree that we may rescind our acceptance and cancel your order without penalty if we are unable to ship the product you ordered due to unavailability.
The term shipping or ship includes the commencement of shipping items in an order for multiple purchases or where the item purchased consists of components that must be shipped separately. For example, your order may consist of (1) several different items, (2) a quantity of the same item, or, (3) a single item with several component parts the size of which might require them to be shipped in separate packages. In all such orders, we endeavor to ship out individual packages together so that they arrive at the same time; however, when that is not possible, we commence by shipping individual packages in the order they are available and conditions permit. In these instances, our notification to you that your order has "shipped", marks the time when shipping has commenced; it does not mean that all items in the order have shipped at that time. You agree that credit cards and debit cards are to be charged on the date of inventory reservation for the order, not the date of shipping. Sunshine Daydream is NOT responsible for ship times once an item is in transit.
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Pricing of products available for purchase by non-U.S. customers may vary by country and from our prices for our U.S. customers, owing to the inclusion of all or a portion of shipping, taxes, duties and imports factored into the price of the product.
If you are contracting as a consumer, you may cancel an order that we have accepted at any time within seven working days, beginning on the day after you received the products. In this case, you will receive a full refund of the price paid for the products. Please note you must return the product to us and must pay the cost of returning the product to us under the policy, unless the product(s) are not those you ordered, in which case we will bear your costs of returning the product(s) in question to us.
You will not have the right to cancel an order under these provisions for audio or video recordings or computer software where you (or someone else following delivery to the delivery address you provide) have or has unsealed the package [or, where the product is provided in electronic format, where you or (or someone else following delivery as requested by you) has downloaded the content].
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Our liability for losses any international customer suffers as a result of us breaking these Terms and Conditions or anything else we do or do not do in connection with any order is strictly limited to the purchase price of the product you purchased and any losses which are a foreseeable consequence of us breaking the agreement. Losses are foreseeable where they could reasonably be contemplated by the parties at the time your order is accepted by us.
We are not responsible for indirect losses which happen as a side effect of the main loss or damage and which are not foreseeable, including but not limited to:
(a) Loss of income or revenue; (b) Loss of business; (c) Loss of profits or contracts; (d) Loss of anticipated savings; (e) Loss of data; or (f) Waste of management or office time however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise.This does not in any way limit or exclude any liability of us (a) under section 2(3) of the Consumer Protection Act 1987, (b) for breach of any condition as to title or quiet enjoyment implied by section 12 Sale of Goods Act 1979 or section 2 Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982; (c) for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or (d) for fraudulent misrepresentation. Other than the warranties and other assurances we give you in these Terms and Conditions, SUNSHINE DAYDREAM specifically disclaims all warranties, conditions and other terms of any kind, whether expressed or implied, including but not limited to implied terms of satisfactory quality or fitness for purpose. No oral advice or written information given by Sunshine Daydream shall create a warranty (unless made fraudulently).
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Red Pepper: Dismantling the NHS
September 30, 2010 -- Behind the technicalities, what do the government's plans for the NHS really mean? Stewart Player and Colin Leys expose the reality of the health service white paper
The coalition government's plans for the NHS represent the final conversion of healthcare into something to be bought, with really good care going to those who can pay for it and only a defined 'package' of free treatments, of declining quality, for everyone else.
What has already occurred with dentistry, physiotherapy, podiatry and other services will start happening across the board. 'Top-ups' and 'co-payments' will become standard. Some treatments will cease to be available freely on the NHS and have to be paid for – if you can afford it.
It's already happening all over England, as staff and services are cut to meet the government's demand for £20 billion 'savings' over the next five years. GPs are being told to refer many fewer patients to specialists.
NHS North London has decided to cut back on cataracts and hip and knee replacements. The government's plans mean that this will become the norm, not just one-off cuts justified as a response to a crisis. Under the new plans, by 2014 NHS hospitals will no longer be answerable to the taxpayers who have paid for them over the years, and will no longer have the overriding aim of providing the best possible healthcare for the their local community.
By then they will all be businesses, competing with private hospitals and clinics for NHS patient income. To stay afloat financially they will have to cut costs, reduce staff, lower the 'skill mix', reduce levels of pay, focus on profitable treatments and neglect or even abandon high-cost and unrewarding ones in order to match the for-profit sector. There will also be many fewer of them.
The aim is to take chronic care out of hospitals and deal with it in non-hospital settings – 'super-surgeries' or clinics, largely owned and run by private companies. It will be a healthcare market, very like that in the US.
All hospitals, public and private, will be answerable only to the central regulator, Monitor, which is concerned only to ensure that they stay solvent and behave competitively.
They will be supervised for safety and quality by the Care Quality Commission, but the CQC is notoriously feeble: it gave mid-Staffordshire top marks when several hundred patients had been dying there from neglect.
The white paper says the CQC will become more demanding. But if in future it tells a hospital to raise its standards, and the finance director replies that the required improvements are unaffordable, what is supposed to happen? There will be no 'bailouts'. The government's view is that the hospital should either cut some services, or even close altogether, leaving patients to be treated by 'better', privately-owned hospitals – or perhaps in the same hospital, after it has been taken over by a private company.
That is the logic of the healthcare market the white paper envisages.
But closing a medical department or even a whole hospital isn't like closing a department in a department store, or the store as a whole. There are rarely adequate alternative facilities within reach. Letting hospitals fail means chaos, anxiety and serious risks for patients and their families.
And what if the private company's services turn out to be no better? The quality record of the privately-owned Independent Sector Treatment Centres (ISTCs), set up and subsidised at huge public expense by Alan Milburn during his time as health minister to treat NHS-funded patients, is notoriously worse than that of NHS hospitals doing similar work.
Whether it is healthcare or home care or schools, good public services for all must come in the end from a service ethic on the part of staff who are not in it for the money, and management who are not in it for shareholders (or forced to compete with companies that are run for shareholders). Outside regulation has a part to play, but without the core commitment that comes from being part of a national service that expresses the solidarity of society – in the case of health, the solidarity of all the well with all the sick – equally good services for everyone will soon be a thing of the past.
The proposed change that has attracted most attention is the shift of commissioning from Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to 'local consortia of GP practices'. This is being done on the grounds that 'primary care professionals' are best placed to know what is best for patients, and will engage in 'more effective dialogue and partnership with hospital specialists'. Who could object to that?
You do wonder why PCTs haven't previously been told to organise such a dialogue between GPs and specialists; but the more important point is that GPs can't in fact do commissioning.
'Commissioning' is Department of Health-speak for purchasing, and what it means in practice is setting the terms of what exactly will be paid for: what services will be covered, how they will be delivered, by clinicians with what sorts of qualifications, following what protocols, with what limits on length of stay in hospital, prescribing what drugs and rehabilitation programmes, and so on. These so-called 'care pathways' are at the heart of commissioning, or buying healthcare. The payments are per-patient, at pre-agreed prices for each kind of treatment package.
And to ensure that the deal pays off, any variation from the agreed protocols must be cleared with the commissioner or purchaser. This is the meaning of the 'managed care' operated by America's notorious HMOs (health maintenance organisations), in which doctors have to plead with the HMO to be allowed to go ahead with a needed treatment that the HMO says is unnecessary, in reality because it will cost more than the HMO wants to pay.
Viewers of Michael Moore's film Sicko will remember a doctor who used to work for an HMO telling a congressional committee how she was paid a bonus according to how often she denied treatments to patients. The new 'GP consortia' may not go so far as to reward their staff on this basis. But they will have limited budgets, and the way they are supposed to reduce costs is precisely to involve themselves in the details of all the treatments they are going to pay for. Someone will have the job of denying something.
Two big deceptions
1 Who will really run the new GP consortia?
Some GPs are said to be keen to take on commissioning. But the work involved is essentially commercial, not medical. The new consortia will have to employ large teams of administrators, lawyers and others to negotiate, make contracts, monitor performance, send out bills, do audits, deal with disputes, and so on – as PCTs are already doing.
That is the first big deception involved in this change. It sounds as if GPs will be doing the work, when in fact the essential job of buying hospital and other services involves a vast range of tasks that practising GPs can't possibly do, and aren't trained to do – even if they decided to stop treating patients altogether.
In fact, the work calls for skills developed in the managed care industry in the US. The English healthcare market is going to be run on the principles developed there, not by the GPs whose 'pivotal and trusted role' is supposed to be central to it.
The change will also mean that GPs will be nominally responsible for the £20 billion of service cuts that are already starting to be made. How trusted will they still be after that? That remains to be seen.
2 The cost of commissioning
The second big deception is that focusing on who does the commissioning prevents a crucial question from being asked: that is, why do commissioning at all?
Running health services as a market is far more costly than running them as a public service. The Department of Health commissioned a study of the NHS's administrative costs. Based on 2003 data, the authors found that administration absorbed about 14 per cent of the total budget, up from 5 per cent in the 1970s before the marketisation process began.
The department sat on the report for five years. It only came to light in 2010, by which time 'payment by results' (payment for every individual completed hospital 'episode') and other major additional market elements had also been introduced. The share of administrative costs is now probably more like 18 per cent or more.
The ideologues behind the Tory plan maintain that competition makes healthcare providers more efficient. But the evidence from the US suggests the opposite.
There is a good reason why this is so. Good healthcare is above all a matter of having enough, highly-trained staff; yet employing fewer, cheaper staff is the only way to make money out of it.
In reality, the plan to turn the National Health Service into a healthcare market does not rest on rational arguments but material interests. Any realistic strategy to resist the Tory plans must start out from that fact: the plans are not really new, but are the culmination of a decade-long campaign by the private health industry to get its hands on the NHS budget.
How otherwise could the white paper have been produced so fast – a mere two months after a general election during which none of its far-reaching proposals was even mentioned (let alone made an electoral commitment) by either of the two parties now in office? It's hard to imagine that even the overall shape, let alone the detail, of the white paper, was put together in two months. So where did it come from?
The HMO/market model: how its foundations were laid
The reality is that successive Labour health secretaries, working closely with the private sector, had already constructed almost the entire edifice of a healthcare market. The Tory plan merely speeds up the final stage and makes it more clearly visible.
The idea that New Labour planned to replace the NHS with a US-style market, complete with HMOs, may come as a shock to some readers. But the fact is that HMOs have been the inspiration behind practically every element of the 'system reforms' pursued by New Labour since 2000.
One HMO in particular, California-based Kaiser Permanente, the largest HMO in the US, has been intimately involved in shaping the Department of Health's strategic thinking. New Labour's 'reforms' have been worked out in constant discussions with and visits to Kaiser. This includes the conversion of NHS trusts into independent businesses (foundation trusts); the introduction of ISTCs; payment by results; giving NHS work to private hospitals and clinics and encouraging NHS patients to choose them; changes in NHS staff contracts; and, not least, the development of HMO-style commissioning.
The US example
These changes have been introduced in a largely piecemeal fashion, concealing their overall intent. But when looked at with reference to the Kaiser model the various elements assume their true significance.
A defining feature of the US healthcare market and its HMOs is its complexity, with myriad forms of organisation and bureaucracy fragmenting provision, and with thousands of different 'plans' (i.e. insured packages of care) confusing customers, concealing profits and adding hugely to costs. It was precisely to avoid this expensive dog's dinner that the NHS was created. But the basic structure is clear enough.
An HMO like Kaiser receives insurance premium income from its 'enrollees' (and for over-65s, from the US state's Medicare programme), and then 'manages care' for them through three basic 'arms': 1) It owns hospitals and primary care/ambulatory facilities; which are 2) staffed by physicians, who, while nominally independent, are tied into an exclusive relationship with 3) the company's insurance arm.
How do the New Labour/coalition plans correspond to the US model?
* At the level of infrastructure, hospitals are being progressively removed from public ownership – all NHS trusts are to become foundation trusts and are then to become 'social enterprises' owned by their staff, not the taxpayer. Meanwhile privately-owned facilities are subsidised (sweetheart deals for ISTCs, charitable status given to Nuffield hospitals, etc).
Some struggling NHS hospitals will close, while others, such as Hinchingbrooke in Cambridgeshire, will be handed over to private companies to be run for profit. Mark Britnell, who was the Department of Health's head of commissioning under New Labour and is now lucratively installed in the private sector, says Hinchingbrooke is 'only the tip of the iceberg' and anticipates perhaps 20–30 more such transfers over the next year.
ISTCs, too, provide ready-made privately-owned venues for ambulatory and short-term secondary care, while some 150 private hospitals and clinics in the 'Extended Choice Network' that are already available to NHS patients under the 'choice' agenda form the nucleus of an expanded network of private suppliers.
* In terms of staffing, the Kaiser model calls for market relationships with independent teams of consultants, primary care physicians and nurses. In order to develop these, staff must be disengaged from the NHS and redeployed into the above-mentioned teams.
The main initial lever to bring this about will be the significant numbers of hospital doctors who become redundant under the cuts programme. At the same time, GPs already have a semi-independent status and can more readily be included in such teams, which have already been emerging in parts of the country. While such teams may initially have some autonomy, it is unlikely that they will be able to compete with the major providers in the long term; it is more likely that most will end up working for one or other of them, on the Kaiser model.
* The third arm of the HMO model, the insurance function, will be the work of the new commissioning consortia, advised by – or, more likely, progressively outsourcing the work to – private health insurance companies, and some American HMOs. There are also indications in the white paper that patient choice of GP will in due course extend to choice of commissioning consortium – since all GPs will be required to belong to one, so free choice of GP means free choice of commissioner – and that the consortia and hospitals will become free to compete on price and not just on 'quality' as they do now.
It is likely that competing healthcare 'plans' will eventually be a feature of the market here too, as consortia begin to compete for patient income.
The insiders
Pushing through these changes is a tight-knit 'policy community', comprising a number of leading private sector figures, some doctors and some health policy think-tanks, working closely with a group of strategists within the Department of Health. Among the latter, a highly influential figure has been Professor Chris Ham, who was for some years head of the Department of Health's strategy unit and is now director of the King's Fund. Ham has been a long-term champion of Kaiser, organising a series of visits to the company's California headquarters and being instrumental in setting up a number of 'Kaiser beacon' projects within the NHS to introduce and 'normalise' Kaiser's aims and methods among NHS managers.
Even more emblematic is Dr Penny Dash. After working briefly for Kaiser in the 1990s, Dash was appointed head of strategy and planning in the Department of Health, and co-authored the NHS Plan of 2000, which initiated the marketisation process.
Since then she has served on the board of Monitor, led Lord Darzi's recent review of health services in London, and is currently vice chair of the King's Fund.
But it is Dash's function as placewoman for the global consultancy giant, McKinsey, that is probably most significant. McKinsey has been described as the gold standard for the provision of corporate strategy advice to the Fortune 500 companies, and as 'global thought leaders' in the areas of strategy and operations management. The company has played a central role in 'system reform' in the NHS under New Labour, and Dash is now a partner in their London office.
One of her initiatives, the Cambridge Health Network, is essentially a McKinsey front for exchanges between private health corporations, financial institutions and the Department of Health. Sponsors of the Network include some very big game: Halliburton, General Electric, and Perot Systems, as well as our very own GlaxoSmithKline, BUPA, Assura (now owned by Virgin), Mott McDonald and Carillion. McKinsey has been in many ways a key architect of the reforms that have prepared the way for the coalition. It was also, not coincidentally, McKinsey who came up with the figure of £20 billion that is now starting to be cut from the NHS.
Resisting the destruction of the NHS
As everyone recognises, successful resistance to the Tories' plans to cut back public services permanently will call for a mass mobilisation with exceptional levels of solidarity, organisation and commitment. But, as Gregor Gall has recently pointed out, the defeat of the poll tax – the last time anything on this scale was successfully attempted – is not a good analogy with the situation we face now.
The poll tax affected everyone; its injustice was massive and obvious; and it required people to co-operate by registering and paying the tax, which they could and did refuse to do in vast numbers. None of these conditions applies to the complex, uneven, protracted process of dismantling the NHS that the Tories intend to push through.
Yet the injustice that will flow from the loss of the NHS will be massive. It will change the face of English society more profoundly than the poll tax. And it will be for all practicable purposes irreversible – unless we stop it now, all of us resisting in whatever way we can.
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Summary: what the coalition's plans means for the NHS
* Hospitals that 'fail' will be left to go bankrupt and close, or be handed over to be run by private companies.
* GP 'consortia' will run the service, in theory. But doctors don't have the time or skills to do the large amount of administration required – and these are the contracts the private health companies are after.
* There will be £20 billion of cuts. On top of that, the more complex the market system gets, the more money will be spent on administration instead of medical care.
* The consortia will end up trying to reduce costs by denying certain treatments. And if they are to make money, they will do it by employing fewer, cheaper staff.
* In place of a public service we will have a profit-driven healthcare market.
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Who's taking over the NHS?
The main actors in the new GP consortia
The earlier attempt to encourage GPs to take on commissioning roles through 'practice-based commissioning' has been widely acknowledged to be a failure, mainly because most doctors prefer to focus on patients. This allows the 14 major US and UK health corporations, consultancy firms and insurers that currently make up the 'Framework for Procuring External Support for Commissioning' (FESC) to step in and play an increasingly central role in allocating the bulk of NHS finances. The FESC functions include population risk assessment, procurement and performance management, and data harvesting – but it is in service redesign that their impact will be most felt.
So who are these companies?
Aetna (US); Axa PPP (UK); BUPA (UK); CHKS (UK); Dr Foster (UK); Health DialogServices Corporation (US); Humana (US); KPMG LLP (US); McKesson (US); McKinsey (US); Navigant Consulting (US);Tribal (UK); UnitedHealth Europe (US); and WG Consulting (UK).
How these companies profit from the 'revolving door' in senior health personnel
* At KPMG, the former Department of Health head of commissioning Mark Britnell now leads the company's European Health Division. Britnell also has close ties with Dr Foster, having previously been one of its non-executive directors.
* UnitedHealth now employs Blair's former top health adviser Simon Stevens. It also has the former head of the Department of Health's commercial directorate, Channing Wheeler, who, alongside Britnell, set up the FESC before being recalled to the US to face the securities and exchange commission on charges of illegally backdating share options at the time of 9/11.
* BUPA has the services of former health secretary Patricia Hewitt in her role as advisor to the private equity company Cinven, which recently bought out BUPA's entire hospital portfolio.
* Tribal's director of its healthcare division, Matthew Swindells, was chief information officer of the Department of Health and a special adviser to Patricia Hewitt. The company can also call upon Phyllis Shelton, who jumped ship from the Department of Health, where she worked as the lead for measurement on the integrated care organisation programme. Prior to this, she was the founder and managing director of the UK arm of HealthDialogue.
* McKesson's UK chairman is Lord Carter. As chairman of the NHS's competition panel, he is well situated to ensure that decisions on mergers and procurement – including those on commissioning – will follow the privatisation route.
* McKinsey has the Department of Health's former head of strategy, Penny Dash. Some idea of Dash's influence on the commissioning front can be seen in the fact that, in her guise as vice-chair of the King's Fund, she led a recent briefing for PCTs to cut back on commissioning of what she considered to be 'low-value' medical procedures. Sure enough, in June this year, NHS North London proposed cutting back on 'low priority treatments'.
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Mount Athos is a mountain and a peninsula in Macedonia, northern Greece, called Άγιο Όρος (Ayio Oros or "Holy Mountain") in Modern Greek, or Ἅγιον Ὄρος (Hagion Oros) in Classical Greek. It is home to 20 Orthodox monasteries and forms an autonomous state under Greek sovereignty. Only monks are allowed to establish permanent residency on Athos and the current population numbers around 1,400. The peninsula, the easternmost "leg" of the larger Chalkidiki peninsula, protrudes into the Aegean Sea for some 60 km at a width between 7 to 12 km and covers an area of about 390 km², with the actual mountain and its steep, densely forested slopes reaching up to 2,033 m.
The seas around the end of the peninsula can be dangerous. Xerxes I had a channel excavated across the isthmus to allow the passage of his invasion fleet in 483 BC.
Monastics from Mount Athos are often referred to as Athonites or Hagiorites.
Mount Athos as a monastic community was formally founded in 963, when St. Athanasius (not to be confused with the 4th century St. Athanasius the Great) established the monastery of Great Lavra, still the largest and most prominent of the 20 monasteries. It enjoyed the protection of the emperors of the Eastern Roman Empire during the following centuries and its wealth and possessions grew considerably. The Fourth Crusade in the 13th century brought new Roman Catholic overlords which forced the monks to seek protection from Pope Innocent III, until the restoration of the Byzantine Empire. It was raided by Catalan mercenaries in the 14th century, a century that also saw the theological conflict over the hesychasm practised on Mount Athos and defended by Gregory Palamas.
The Byzantine Empire collapsed in the 15th century and the newly established Islamic Ottoman Empire took over. They heavily taxed the monasteries, but for the most part left them alone. The population of monks and their wealth declined over the next centuries, but was revitalized around the 19th century by the donations and new arrivals from other Orthodox countries, such as Russia, Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia, while each country came to exert its influence on individual monasteries. In 1912, during the First Balkan War, the Ottomans were forced out and after a brief conflict between Greece and Russia over sovereignty, the peninsula formally came under Greek sovereignty after World War I.
Politically the peninsula is mostly self-governed and consists of 20 main monasteries and the capital city and administrative center, Karyes, also home to a governor as the representative of the Greek state. Beyond the monasteries there are 12 sketae, which are dependent communities of a monastery, as well as many (solitary) hermitages throughout the peninsula. Visits to the peninsula are possible for laymen, but they need special permission.
Women are completely barred from the peninsula, a fact which has earned a certain amount of fame; even female domestic animals (with the exception, some say, of cats, as well as chickens which lay eggs that provide the fresh egg yolk needed for the paint used in iconography) are forbidden. However, during the Greek Civil War, Athos did shelter refugees including women and girls. [1] The reason for the ban are various miracles of the Mother of God when she shown her desire in this matter and, also, a canon forbidding male visitors to enter female monasteries, and female visitors to male monasteries. While not observed in most monasteries today, Athos is by no means unique in its enforcement of the rule. Unique to Athos is the fact that, due to the whole peninsula being devoted to the monastic vocation, the rule is observed also outside the monastery walls.
In modern times, the Mount Athos monasteries have repeatedly been struck by wildfires, e.g. in August 1990, and in March 2004, fire gutted a large section of the Serbian monastery, Chilandari. Due to the secluded locations of the monasteries as well as the unavailability of suitable fire fighting gear, the damages inflicted by these fires are often considerable.
Greek is commonly used in all Greek monasteries, but in some monasteries there are other languages in use, in St. Panteleimon, Russian; in Chilandari, Serbian; in Zographou, Bulgarian; and in the sketae of Prodromou and Lacu, Romanian. Today, many of the Greek monks can also understand English or other European languages.
List of Monasteries and Sketes
World Heritage Classification, UNESCO
- Date of Inscription - 1988
- Reference No. 454
- Criteria: (i), (ii), (iv), (v), (vi) and (vii)
- An Orthodox spiritual centre since 1054, Mount Athos has enjoyed an autonomous statute since Byzantine times. The 'Holy Mountain', which is forbidden to women and children, is also a recognized artistic site. The layout of the monasteries (about 20 of which are presently inhabited by some 1,400 monks) had an influence as far afield as Russia, and its school of painting influenced the history of Orthodox art. [1]
- Documentations
- ↑ United Nations - Copyright © 1992-2008 UNESCO World Heritage Centre
External links
- The Ascetic Experience - an Athonite site run by Athonite monks
- A Pilgrim's Guide to Mount Athos
- Mount Athos Monasteries
- Greece Mount Athos
- The Holy Mountain - Mount Athos: The Heart of Orthodox Monasticism
- Mount Athos: The Holy Mountain
- Walk in Mount Athos
- Chilandar Monastery
- The Friends of Mount Athos
- A Pilgrim's Guide to Mount Athos (courtesy of The Friends of Mount Athos)
- Books of Athonite Interest (courtesy of The Friends of Mount Athos)
- Visiting Mount Athos
- An American Pilgrim on Mount Athos
- Visiting Athos, the Holy Mountain (Aghion Oros)
- The Holy Mountain
- Mount Athos
- Athos - Monastic life on the Holy Mountain (exhibition)
- Byzantine Monastic Foundation Documents. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.
- Information for Pilgrims
- Called to the Holy Mountain: The Monks of Mount Athos by Robert Draper, photographs by Travis Dove, from National Geographic
- Holy Mount Athos
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