#nhs privatisation

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Labour Deletes ‘The NHS Is Not for Sale’ From Its Manifesto | Novara Media

The party’s 2024 manifesto has removed the clause agreed upon at the last conference. Is soon-to-be health secretary Wes Streeting trying to

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[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

NHS waiting lists drive more Britons to pay for medical treatment | NHS | The Guardian

NHS waiting lists drive more Britons to pay for medical treatment

Private hospital operators expect boom in self-pay to continue for at least next three to five years

This is how NHS privatisation happens. It's not one fell swoop, the Tories don't wake up tomorrow and say "we're abolishing the NHS".

There's a slow chip at services, meaning more people pay to go private. Failing services get sold off to private enterprise. Decisions are made ever more on cost, not quality of care, so more people go private. The NHS is underfunded, so waiting lists grow longer and longer - so people who couldn't afford it before scrape together what they have, take out loans, go private. People hear about this and take out private health insurance because they're scared.

Slowly, it might become a bit like dentists, where actually you can't see an NHS one for love nor money, and if you can't go private you can only access emergency treatment.

Except accessing that treatment becomes difficult and slow and maybe that gets contracted out to private providers. Maybe then, the NHS dies a final death, or maybe they don't bother.

The point is, if the government get their way, the NHS will face a slow death of a thousand cuts over the next 10 years or so. And some people will become very rich indeed off the back of it.

And don't think labour will save you. Starmer is also in the pocket of private healthcare.

If you want the NHS to survive, if you want things to get better, not worse, now is the time to start fighting.

[tezla7]

Tony Blair won’t go away

https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/nhs-waiting-lists-cleared-2030-reforms-tony-blair-institute-new-report-1264074

As Neoliberal New Labour Prime Minister, Tony Blair presided over rapid increasing privatisation of the NHS.  Blair and Brown sold not only the hospitals, but the grounds on which they were built, the services inside the buildings and did it all on PFI loans the likes of which would be illegal to citizens on account of their astronomical interest rates.  Halifax hospital local to me was paid for three times, and it’s still owned by the finance company who can dictate terms inside the building.  Now government incentives to increase its usage are leading to the closure of our hospital in Huddersfield in a town with 270,000 population and poor transport links to other hospitals.  For the first time ever- we no longer have maternity services in Huddersfield.  Children can no longer be safely born where their parents have been for generations.

The US healthcare system has always been held up as THE cautionary tale to world of what not to do.  The NHS was previously led by Simon Stevens who used to be CEO of the largest private healthcare company in the USA.  The NHS has now already been almost entirely privatised by stealth and the neverending covid onslaught enabled by the Conservative government is the perfect catalyst towards a fully and openly privatised system.  On his retirement, the British media heralded Simon Stevens as a hero, the same way they lionise and give voice to Tony Blair.

Tony Blair is the most despised politician in the UK.  The Tony Blair Institute proposals for more privatisation to solve the problem of privatisation- are poison.  A failed country tells its citizens- don’t get sick if you can’t afford to pay for healthcare.  England right now is telling citizens don’t get sick, or you’ll join the 5.7million people on a waiting list for treatment.

Tony Blair, his institution and its legacy are so transparently evil- it’s usually fair to assume that in any given scenario that it’s best to do the opposite of anything they recommend.

Shame on any publication that publishes anything they say.  When an advertisement is published in a newspaper, it is labelled as an advertisement.  When a think tank funded by millionaires and billionaires funds directives to kill people and steal more taxpayer money- their words are published word for word as a legitimate news story and that makes the newspaper equally complicit.

https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/nursing-shortages-are-placing-hospitals-under-further-pressures-as-ministers-reject-covid-plan-b

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NHS GP practice operator with 500,000 patients passes into hands of US health insurer

Merger with Centene Corp covers 500,000 patients fuelling calls for inquiry into ‘NHS privatisation by stealth’

This is how it starts.

[headcanonsandmore]

I kinda feel like a lot of the people who were clapping for the NHS yesterday evening will still happily vote for a political party who’ve spent the past decade crippling it. 

[getpoliticaluk]

Hancock accused of “accelerating” the dismantling of NHS under the cloak of coronavirus

The London Economic | The Health Secretary has been called out for using the pandemic to transfer key public health duties from the NHS | Po

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Can't wait for the NHS to be included on my Disney+ subscription