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GOVERNMENT efforts to play down the proportion of NHS contracts in England snapped up by the private sector are disingenuous and intended to mask its nefarious agenda.
But for British Medical Journal (BMJ) determination to use freedom of information legislation to expose reality, the public would still be in the dark.
The government is content to collude with the private sector and to hide behind the veil of corporate confidentiality to obscure the scale of its depletion of the public purse.
Can Andy Burnham’s programme deliver a productive economy – or merely a softer version of capitalism, asks VINCE MILLS
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