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There are fears that the NHS is on an irreversible path towards privatisation after opponents of controversial health service competition rules failed to overturn them.
A Labour move to throw out Section 75 Regulations, which protesters claim open up NHS services to market competition, was defeated in a House of Lords debate on Wednesday by 254 votes to 146, Government majority 108.
Opponents failed despite former cabinet minister Lord Owen warning the rules would leave the NHS "massively changed" and unrecognisable within 20 years.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/n...s-for-nhs-after-challenge-fails-29221264.html
A Labour move to throw out Section 75 Regulations, which protesters claim open up NHS services to market competition, was defeated in a House of Lords debate on Wednesday by 254 votes to 146, Government majority 108.
Opponents failed despite former cabinet minister Lord Owen warning the rules would leave the NHS "massively changed" and unrecognisable within 20 years.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/n...s-for-nhs-after-challenge-fails-29221264.html