In an i podcast, shadow Health Minister Wes Streeting has said he would “hold the door wide open” to the NHS for the private sector after Labour wins the coming general election. This fits in with the wooing of Sir Keir by one or two prominent private health groups as reported in some media and relayed here. It is worryingly similar to the attitude of Blair, Brown and Mandelson and the Labour government of 1997-2010 which saw short-term savings and long-term losses. Hospitals were built under PFI contracts for which some trusts will have to pay for years to come. Other outsourcings were shown to be more costly than if the functions had been retained in-house.
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