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"Independent" NHS watchdog chief David Prior opened a new front in the row on political appointments yesterday with a shameless public call for further privatisation of the health service.
The former Tory Party deputy chairman blundered into the debate hot on the heels of Labour peer Sally Morgan's sacking as Ofsted chief amid claims the government is trying to pack posts with loyalists.
In a scaremongering Sunday Telegraph article Care Quality Commission chair Mr Prior claimed that NHS England could "go bust" without "more competition" and "more entrants into the market from private-sector companies, the voluntary sector and other care providers."
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
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
