Max Pemberton, writer on health matters for the Daily Telegraph, on “the day they signed the death warrant for the NHS.”
“Anyone who studies the NHS Reform Bill, “will find little more than a road map for destroying the NHS, turning it into a cash cow for the corporate sector. The focus is on transforming public sector provision into an entirely market-led system, throwing open every service to private providers. Previous pieces of legislation that existed to ensure the NHS remained in public ownership are weakened or removed entirely in the Bill.”