If you go to A&E in Kings College Hospital in London and require a wheelchair, you’d best get your credit card out! At this hospital, and coming soon to others, a private company will provide wheelchairs free of charge … for the first four hours! And how many people unfortunate enough to end up in A&E are seen within four hours? After that you will be charged £2 an hour for the ‘privilege’ of using a wheelchair in hospital.
Is this the sort of thing we can expect from health secretary Wes Streeting’s increased involvement of big business in our health service? Big businesses profiting by providing a basic service we all would expect to be free of charge.
The first ‘reform’ for the NHS should be kicking out all the private health vultures and running it for the good of us all.
