Labour demands inquiry into privatisation of NHS-owned recruiter

[Northerner]

Labour is demanding an inquiry into the privatisation of a government-owned NHS recruitment firm that saves hospitals £70m a year.

NHS Professionals helps the health service in England tackle its staffing crisis by arranging for doctors and nurses on its books to cover potentially harmful gaps in rotas.
Labour has asked the National Audit Office to look into why Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, is selling a profitable and effective company his Department of Health owns. The firm should be kept in public hands and allowed to continue playing a key role in alleviating widespread NHS understaffing, the party says.

Justin Madders, the shadow health minister, has written to Sir Amyas Morse, the comptroller and auditor general who heads up Whitehall’s spending watchdog, asking him to intervene before a sale is finalised, possibly as soon as next month.

https://www.theguardian.com/society...iry-into-privatisation-of-nhs-owned-recruiter

 

[Bill Stewardson]

Labour is demanding an inquiry into the privatisation of a government-owned NHS recruitment firm that saves hospitals £70m a year.

NHS Professionals helps the health service in England tackle its staffing crisis by arranging for doctors and nurses on its books to cover potentially harmful gaps in rotas.
Labour has asked the National Audit Office to look into why Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, is selling a profitable and effective company his Department of Health owns. The firm should be kept in public hands and allowed to continue playing a key role in alleviating widespread NHS understaffing, the party says.

Justin Madders, the shadow health minister, has written to Sir Amyas Morse, the comptroller and auditor general who heads up Whitehall’s spending watchdog, asking him to intervene before a sale is finalised, possibly as soon as next month.

https://www.theguardian.com/society...iry-into-privatisation-of-nhs-owned-recruiter

When will these left wing people with a social conscience get the message.

The idea is to run down the NHS to breaking point, isolate the profitable parts and sell them off to American concerns.

Leaving the rest to then be based on the American model.

Simple.

 

[mikeyB]

It's not really left wing. There's no reason why an efficient part of the NHS should be sold off. As you say, Bill, this government privatises anything in the NHS that can be used to make a profit. It won't save the NHS any money, you can be sure of that.

 

[Northerner]

It won't save the NHS any money, you can be sure of that.

Clearly not, given that it is currently putting any profit back into the NHS. The only reason why the government can sell it is because it is profitable, and who knows perhaps part of the reason for the sale is to remove a 'competitor' to the privately-run agencies 🙄 It's like the East Coast mainline - unprofitable and failing privately, taken back into public ownership, made lots of money for the taxpayer, so the government insisted on privatising it again 😡 There is this mistaken myth that anything publicly owned and run cannot be as efficient as something privately run, which is nonsense when you see how many businesses fail.

 

[Bill Stewardson]

It's not really left wing. There's no reason why an efficient part of the NHS should be sold off. As you say, Bill, this government privatises anything in the NHS that can be used to make a profit. It won't save the NHS any money, you can be sure of that.

Seems to me that these days "fair thinking" , especially around the public sector is seen as left wing, whereas "profit above all else" is now the correct and proper way.

People can/will make their own minds up about that.