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From The Socialist newspaper, 9 January 2013
More Tory privatisation
The Tories plan that the National Health Service will have to pay over 100 private firms to treat patients in a major expansion of privatisation. The healthcare firms will be given the status of 'any qualified provider' (AQP) and allowed to offer services like physiotherapy, hearing aids and MRI scanning - for profit.
Companies such as InHealth, Virgin Care and Specsavers will be among the first to take advantage of this. NHS workers, including many doctors, fear that the NHS is being atomised, split into thousands of different providers.
Meanwhile patients have to find their way through many different organisations instead of one NHS.
Capitalism's future for the NHS is one where big firms, wary of investment elsewhere, make money from our public services and our health. We say kick big business, which cares only for profit, out of the NHS.
Sam Rivers
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The results of austerity have been graphically demonstrated as public services strain to cope with the crisis.
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In The Socialist 9 January 2013:
Socialist Party news and analysis
"Enough is enough!" - Fight all cuts
2013: Prepare for a mighty battle against deeper cuts
Unite the Union general secretary election
Making it easier to sack workers
Who's neglecting society, Mr Lamb?
International socialist news and analysis
South Africa: Founding of Workers and Socialist Party
Socialist Party reports and campaigns
Prepare for strike action to save our hospitals
'The Eight Consultations of Christmas' in Southampton
Birmingham Labour's 'grotesque chaos'
2012 Fighting Fund target smashed
Socialist Party women's meeting
Obituary
Socialist Party workplace news
Standing firm in Mid Yorks hospitals pay cuts battle
London Underground cleaners strike over New Year
Tyne and Wear Metro strikers tell bosses to end poverty pay
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