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Jeremy Hunt - health sec of the UK has been visiting to see if their model can be applied to the UK. Before being in charge of health he wrote a book about how
by stuaxo 9y ago
Jeremy Hunt - health sec of the UK has been visiting to see if their model can be applied to the UK.
Before being in charge of health he wrote a book about how health should be privatised, since he has been in the position the NHS has been in almost constant crisis.
- crdoconnor 9y agoJeremy Hunt caused the crisis as a stepping stone to privatisation which is why he's the most disliked frontline politician in the UK: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-hunt-is-the-most-disliked-frontline-british-politician-of-any-party-a-new-poll-shows-a6874846.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-hunt-i...
- DanBC 9y agoWe've already seen increased independent sector provision. Drug and alcohol services got taken out of the NHS and given to public health. Local authorities had to run competitive tendering. Some of them sent the work back to NHS providers, but many are now provided by community interest companies like Change Grow Live, or private for profit providers like Priory Group. At the moment one third of patients detained under section of the mental health act are in independent sector hospitals. We have organisations like LivewellSW (they're very good) providing healthcare across a large region. People don't really understand how far along we are with privatisation.