Quakers, Socialists and the NHS

by Priscilla Alderson

Recent remarks by Wes Streeting MP give a distorted view of the effect that his proposed reforms would have on the NHS . He says Labour healthcare policy is to support the private sector ‘to help to reduce NHS waiting lists’ but this involves taking doctors and all other healthcare staff out of NHS services, where they have been trained.   The plan includes the NHS paying for private services for some patients. But these waste money by costing more than they would do if they were provided directly by the NHS. Meanwhile, some leading Labour MPs accept funds from private healthcare companies and can expect to work for them in future decades and earn very high incomes. This is explained in:

 https://www.healthcampaignstogether.com/pdf/HCTno22.pdf

Professor Allyson Pollock has researched the privatising of the NHS for over 20 years and has made this moving webinar. Anyone who care about the NHS would greatly benefit from watching it. https://gftu.org.uk/general-election-protect-the-nhs/