Skip to main content
Advertise Buy the paper Contact us Shop Subscribe Support us

Error message

An error occurred while searching, try again later.
NHS under threat: Labour is wrong to embrace private sector 
Diverting public funding to grow private-sector ‘spare capacity,’ actively undermines the funding and staff available to the NHS and results in a worse service, write JOHN PUNTIS and TONY O’SULLIVAN

2024 was the busiest year on record for emergency departments and ambulance services in England. Care in corridors and car parks has become normal. One in eight beds are occupied by patients unable to go home without community or social support. Delays moving sick patients from emergency departments to a hospital bed, caused an estimated 14,000 avoidable deaths last year. A&E overcrowding means ambulances wait outside to hand over patients and miss 100,000 urgent callouts each month.

Despite its massive parliamentary majority, the Labour has dropped previous promises, sidestepped this immediate national crisis and instead announced partnership with the private sector to reduce non-emergency waiting lists by 2029. 

Why?

Boosting the role of private sector

The private sector is a competitor, not a partner

Restore the public NHS

Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
More from this author
Report / 30 March 2024
30 March 2024
ROS SITWELL reports from a conference held in light of the closure of the Gender Identity and Development Service for children and young people, which explored what went wrong at the service and the evidence base for care
Features / 26 October 2023
26 October 2023
ROS SITWELL reports from the three-day FiLiA conference in Glasgow
Features / 7 July 2023
7 July 2023
ROS SITWELL reports on a communist-initiated event aimed at building unity amid a revived women’s movement
Features / 15 July 2019
15 July 2019
London conference hears women speak out on the consequences of self-ID in sport