NHS services and assets,including blood supplies, nurses, or scanning and diagnostic services,ambulances, care homes, and hospital beds and buildings – which the British public own – are being handed over to UK and foreign private companies. This is being done without a public mandate. Privatised services cost the NHS and taxpayer far more than when provided by our publicly owned and publicly speed NHS. That is because public health systems don’t seek profits. They don’t need to pay dividends to shareholders. They don’t hold the added costs of private sector loans. And they don’t hold privatisation’s heavy and unnecessary marketising costs of contracts,billings and all the additional administration involved.
The huge commercial costs and chaos caused by the ongoing NHS fragmentation are the direct result of privatisation. This is endangering the quality and safety of our public healthcare. That is why we need the National Health Service bill.
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Source: theguardian.com