Matt Hancock going ‘full steam ahead with NHS privatisation’

[Northerner]

Health Secretary Matt Hancock is proceeding “full steam ahead with NHS privatisation”, according to the Labour party as it reveals a total of 21 contracts worth £127m are currently out to tender.

The deals include a £91m contract to run an NHS 111/Clinical Assessment Service in the South East. Some £36m of new NHS contracts have been put out to tender in the last six weeks alone, according to new House of Commons Library analysis undertaken for Labour.

In February, shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth demanded Mr Hancock block private companies from securing 26 NHS contracts worth over £128m out to tender at the time after the latter promised “there would be no privatisation of the NHS under my watch.”

Mr Ashworth will today accuse the Health Secretary of breaking his promise and demand that he prioritises ending privatisation of the NHS by keeping these contracts in public hands, instead of “working on his own Tory leadership bid”.

https://inews.co.uk/nhs/matt-hancock-nhs-privatisation-labour-warning/

 

[Madeline]

Just chuck the whole lot in prison. I’ve never been so disillusioned and pissed off in my life.

 

[nonethewiser]

Mr Ashworth will today accuse the Health Secretary of breaking his promise and demand that he prioritises ending privatisation of the NHS by keeping these contracts in public hands, instead of “working on his own Tory leadership bid”.

Good luck with that one.

The greedy politicians have a finger in the pie of private companies, many of whom have been awarded nhs contracts.

 

[mikeyB]

Again, I would suggest changing the title of the thread to NHS England. It’s been set up by every change brought in by the Tories. This despite the fact that every single privatisation of public services such as probation and jails has ended in chaos and has had to be brought back in house. You can’t privatise public services, because private companies look for profit. That inevitably leads to higher costs. That’s what went wrong with gas and electric privatisation - no competion when cartels formed, just huge profits.

 

[Ljc]

Just chuck the whole lot in prison. I’ve never been so disillusioned and pissed off in my life.

Ditto !

Again, I would suggest changing the title of the thread to NHS England. It’s been set up by every change brought in by the Tories. This despite the fact that every single privatisation of public services such as probation and jails has ended in chaos and has had to be brought back in house. You can’t privatise public services, because private companies look for profit. That inevitably leads to higher costs. That’s what went wrong with gas and electric privatisation - no competion when cartels formed, just huge profits.

Ditto !


Putting it mildly, IMHO this shower couldn’t run a p up in a brewery.