Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a visit to Colchester Hospital in Essex
NEW government legislation will “Americanise” the NHS and push Britain’s health system towards its demise, left MPs warned in Parliament today.
In a debate led by Leeds East Labour MP Richard Burgon, MP after MP reported on a service already struggling to cope in their constituencies following a decade of underfunding, thousands of exhausted staff forced out, and billions of pounds siphoned off to the private sector.
A Tory MP who defended his party’s record was told that the Conservatives voted 22 times against the creation of the NHS before its creation by Labour in 1948 — and had been working to undermine it ever since.
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
If we can tackle the big issues, like delivering decent public services and affordable state-built and owned housing by making the richest pay a fair amount of tax, Labour can win back the trust and support of the electorate, argues ANDY McDONALD MP
Politicians who continue to welcome contracts with US companies without considering the risks and consequences of total dependency in the years to come are undermining the raison d’etre of the NHS, argues Dr JOHN PUNTIS