The abolition of the NHS. That’s what is happening
http://www.allysonpollock.co.uk/blog/
Allyson Pollock and David Price
24 November 2011
In a speech on exports and growth on 10th November 2011, David Cameron went “off-script” and revealed his government’s true agenda for the NHS. Standing in front of a Union Jack banner and the slogan “START UP BRITAIN” the Prime Minister told his audience of small and medium enterprise people at the BFI on London’s South Bank: “We have a growth review, led by the Chancellor and the business secretary, which ensures that every minister has to come to the table with proposals to cut regulation in their departments and come up with ways of helping business in their sector, helping them to grow.” Then he said: “From the Health Secretary, I don’t just want to know about waiting times. I want to know how we drive the NHS to be a fantastic business for Britain.”
That same week Hinchingbrooke Hospital became the first NHS Hospital to be franchised to a large for profit health care company — Circle.
The NHS is already big business and some of the costs are there for everyone to see.
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Prof Allyson Pollock, Centre for Primary Care and Public Health Sciences, Queen Mary University of London
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Published in OpenKingdom, 24 November 2011
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