NHS privatisation soars as private companies win 70% of clinical contracts in England | The Independent
Jeremy Hunt has frequently downplayed the role private firms have in the NHS [Image: Getty].
And the NHS isn’t being privatised? Pull the other one.
NHS spending on care provided by private companies has jumped by £700m to £3.1bn with non-NHS firms winning almost 70 per cent of tendered contracts in England last year.
Private care providers were awarded 267 out of a total of 386 contracts made available in 2016-17, including the seven highest value opportunities, worth £2.4bn.
Richard Branson’s Virgin Care scooped a record £1bn worth of contracts last year, meaning the company now has over 400 separate NHS contracts, making it the dominant private provider in the NHS market.
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How many nasty Tories and their equally nasty chums have shares in these objectionable private companies I wonder?
there is a reference to the above where a hospital trust is creating
A plan to set up a separate company to run many of Bradford’s hospital services has been branded “creeping privatisation” by MPs and a workers’ union.
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/15805487.Plan_sparks_fears_of__privatisation_by_the_back_door__for_Bradford_hospitals/?ref=rl&lp=1
at moment its non-medical roles.
When its taken back they should not give them a penny
I cannot believe all these covert privatisations were delivered at less than the current costs therefore there is a large profit and shareholder value being incorporated in their priceing making the public NHS costs even higher. The actual value for money will follow when their outsourced version of how it should be done are eventually seen for what they really are or when a catastrophic failure has to be bailed out of trouble as has happened quite frequently.