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NHS privatisation: the writing is on the wall
NHS England says private companies like Cygnet are its ‘partners,’ but US private health corporation Universal Health Services’ latest annual report describes the NHS as a ‘competitor,’ writes SOLOMON HUGHES
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BORIS JOHNSON’S Conservatives were worried fears about the NHS — about cuts, privatisation and US companies grabbing bits of the health service — could eat into their votes during the election.

So they took the obvious route — lying.

Conservative Central Office said that arguments about privatisation were “just scaremongering from Labour. There has been no increase in NHS privatisation and there won’t be under a Conservative government.”

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