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Samantha Wathen is the Press Officer for Keep Our NHS Public, a cross-party organisation that campaigns against privatisation, cuts and closures of the NHS.
The health secretary’s ‘Plan for Patients’ includes nothing that grapples with the real scale of the NHS’s crisis – but does pave the way for even more money to be funnelled into private pockets.
A decade of cutbacks, privatisation and underfunding have seriously damaged the NHS, just as it is about to face its greatest-ever crisis. It needs massive government investment – immediately.
The NHS isn’t under threat of privatisation, it’s already being privatised – with billions of pounds of contracts sold off every year. Another Tory government could be its final straw.