NHS privatisation is real

Cowper says, “Health campaigning during the Corbyn era was largely against fictional NHS privatisation.”1Privatisation of the NHS is not fictional. US Centene is now the largest single provider of GP services in England.2 It also majority owns Circle and shares in US Babylon,34 US UnitedHealth recently bought EMIS, and it and McKinsey have regularly advised the government and steered sustainability and transformation plans, accountable care organisations, and integrated care systems on NHS “transformation.”56 Hospital Corporation of America owns most private sector hospitals.7 Private health companies pull out of contracts if they’re not profitable enough.8Increasing the number of medical students needs more training places, supervised and taught. We need doctors, nurses, beds, and hospitals, but how that care is delivered is the other half of the problem facing the NHS. Extra funding to increase Centene’s profits is money wasted. Extraordinary sums and contracts fly freely out to private sector (“taking learning…
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