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The Labour Lord who penned a paper calling for patients to pay for the NHS is an adviser to health privateers, health union Unite revealed yesterday.
Labour ex-health minister Lord Warner wrote the report for right-wing think thank Reform suggesting a “membership scheme” should be introduced into the NHS at a fee of £10 month.
Unite said that if the proposals went through, there would be a clear “conflict of interest” given that Lord Warner has several connections within the private care industry.
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
When privatisation is already so deeply embedded in the NHS, we can’t just blindly argue for ‘more funding’ to solve its problems, explain ESTHER GILES, NICO CSERGO, BRIAN GIBBONS and RATHI GUHADASAN