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PRIVATISATION is destroying the NHS’s ability to carry out common surgery, an expert warned at a TUC fringe meeting today.
Professor Allyson Pollock, a consultant in public health medicine, said: “If you look now on the website on every large foundation trust, they will all have a webpage dedicated to private patients.
“Many of them are franchising out John Lewis whole wards, whole floors to Hospital Corporation of America, UnitedHealth, you name it, and that’s how their income is generated — so up to half of their income means half of their beds, services, staff can also be dedicated to private patients.
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
Politicians who continue to welcome contracts with US companies without considering the risks and consequences of total dependency in the years to come are undermining the raison d’etre of the NHS, argues Dr JOHN PUNTIS