While Tories distract us with Brexit, the NHS has just slipped out its first price list for treatments
Don’t say you weren’t warned.
Please don’t say you weren’t warned.
Because you’ve been warned time and time and time again the Tories are stealthily privatising the NHS.
This doesn’t mean just handing over hospitals and NHS services to private firms.
It means stealthily introducing actual charges to NHS patients at point of need.
This is all totally ignored by the mainstream press of course.
NHS trusts are now so confident they’ll get away with it, they are openly publishing the very first price lists since the formation of the NHS – for NHS operations, NHS procedures and NHS consultations (see here):
PLEASE SHARE if you care about the NHS. Thanks.
In the Dark 
June 20, 2019 at 4:52 pm
Philip: your comment sounds superficially reasonable, but bear in mind that NHS staff time is a zero-sum game. The waiting lists are so long because there are only a limited number of surgeon-hours in the week. These elective procedures reduce this supply still further. So in a way this is the same scandal as private medicine, where consultants treat fewer NHS patients than they might in order to go off and treat paying queue-jumpers (full disclosure: I did jump the queue on one occasion – I felt both guilty and angry that the long waiting lists pushed me into doing so). But the best that can be said for private medicine is that they build separate clinics. What’s going on here is that NHS beds will be filled with paying customers, even though they don’t have enough beds to admit people who are currently being left to rot on trolleys in A+E.
June 20, 2019 at 8:54 pm
Tories: Putting the N into cuts since 1979…
Doesn’t add anything it’s just how I feel as we approach the cliff they’re going to drive us over. If only I had Non UK heritage within 2 generations…
June 21, 2019 at 12:52 pm
The Tory leaders are mostly illegitimate descendants of royals.
The labour leaders on the other hand are mostly are illegals who crossed the channel. The entire politics of UK is simply illegals vs. illegitimates. Not sure whom to support.
June 21, 2019 at 5:54 pm
Why do you assume I am in a leadership race?