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An NHS catch it, bin it, kill it sign on TV screens in the entrance to the QEII Centre in London
CORONAVIRUS will hit the working class, the poor, the disabled and the most vulnerable the hardest, thanks to government attacks on the NHS, campaigners warned today.
The Keep Our NHS Public campaign group (KONP) said that the government’s policies “have undermined the ability of the NHS to respond to Covid-19 at the threshold of a pandemic.”
KONP co-chair and retired paediatrician Dr Tony O’Sullivan said: “As fear sets in about the spread of the coronavirus, the weakest points in the protection that the NHS and other public services offer exactly mirror the most ignorant, vindictive and ideological of the policies of our political leaders.
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
