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NHS privatisation: the writing is on the wall
NHS England says private companies like Cygnet are its ‘partners,’ but US private health corporation Universal Health Services’ latest annual report describes the NHS as a ‘competitor,’ writes SOLOMON HUGHES
PIE IN THE SKY? Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care last August during a visit to Pilgrim Hospital in Boston, Lincolnshire, to announce the government’s NHS spending pledge of 1.8 billion
JOHN McINALLY sees little chance of change at Westminster, and calls on the left to get serious about building a real alternative
With the centenary of the UN Slavery Convention upon us, ROGER McKENZIE argues much needs to be done to rid us of all its contemporary manifestations
SEVIM DAGDELEN says European Nato states are escalating ever closer to direct conflict with a nuclear power, and sacrificing welfare states built up over a century to finance it
CLAUDIA WEBBE says the horrific price British patients will pay for this NHS deal is now clear — and there’s time to get out of it, if MPs will only force the issue
KENNY MacASKILL says the lines between party, government and Civil Service in Scotland have been blurred and we need a thorough investigation into how
BORIS JOHNSON’S Conservatives were worried fears about the NHS — about cuts, privatisation and US companies grabbing bits of the health service — could eat into their votes during the election.
So they took the obvious route — lying.
Conservative Central Office said that arguments about privatisation were “just scaremongering from Labour. There has been no increase in NHS privatisation and there won’t be under a Conservative government.”
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