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A Liberal approach to a free market NHS?

By Grace Goodlad | Tue 3rd October 2006 - 8:53 pm

StethoscopeOliver Letwin has hit the headlines again for his “no limits” approach to privatisation of the NHS.

This isn’t exactly a huge difference from what Labour are currently doing, with “Private Treatment Centres” being given growing volumes of work, PPP putting the NHS in debt to private investor capital, and huge volumes of privatisation of non-frontline services such as finance, logistics, catering, cleaning…

We all know the problems that privatised cleaning services have caused.  There are frequent, and sadly true, horror stories of dirty wards and horrific MRSA and related superbug infection rates – just this week a hospital in Patricia Hewitt’s own constituency has been hit, with tragic results for some of the unlucky patients.

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