NHS SOS
- A House of Lords committee has said working class people should live more healthily to reduce strain on the NHS. Peers noted the impact of cuts, but also said “access to the NHS involves patient responsibilities as well as patient rights.” It’s easy to live healthily if – like a peer – you can earn £300 a day without having to work
- Hospitals will have to pay out £80 billion due to parasitic ‘private finance initiative’ (PFI) deals. This is over six times the £12.4 billion NHS trusts originally borrowed for new infrastructure. The Socialist says cancel the PFI debts. Meanwhile, NHS bosses are considering borrowing £10 billion from hedge funds to plug their funding gap