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Private hospitals get mega-bailout from the NHS
The privateers facing a huge loss of business because of Covid-19 were happy to snaffle up a ‘cash positive’ deal thanks to block booking of beds, whether they were used or not, writes SOLOMON HUGHES

WHEN talking about the danger of NHS privatisation, we should remember how much NHS privatisation has already taken place.
Both “New” Labour and Tory ministers had a simple but crude way of hiding NHS privatisation: they treated the NHS as a “brand” and stuck the big blue-and-white NHS logo on the front of private health companies.
So many operations people think are run by the publicly owned National Health Service are actually handed over to private firms.
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