21 February 2021
As revealed in The Great NHS Heist documentary, the Conservative Party was ‘wargaming’ its plans for selling off the NHS and other public utilities as long ago as 1977, planning denationalisation “not… by frontal attack, but by a policy of preparation for return to the private sector by stealth”. Campaigning group WeOwnIt has also noted a 1988 pamphlet from the Tory-linked Centre for Policy Studies think tank which suggested how profitable the NHS would be for the private sector. (NHS is Britain’s Biggest Enterprise? Whoda thought eh?)
And now, despite plans leaked earlier this month suggesting the government was considering reversing the controversial market reforms introduced in the 2012 Health and Social Care Act, the privatisation of services that could have been provided more efficiently by the NHS appears to have accelerated ‘under the cover of covid’ during the past 12 months.
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