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THE sale of the NHS to US privateers is already underway, campaigners warned today after a company in the States was confirmed as the outsourcer of services at a Derbyshire hospital.
US transnational health profiteer the Steris Corporation is to take over Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Trust’s decontamination unit and services that maintain and operate medical equipment.
The essential services’ staff have been told their jobs are being transferred to the US giant, which has its operational base in Ohio, is registered in Dublin and has facilities dotted across the world, including a subsidiary in Britain.
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
Reversing outsourcing is the pre-election promise the government must honour, says Unison general secretary CHRISTINA McANEA
