Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock leaving 10 Downing Street, London after a meeting, March 14
HEALTH Secretary Matt Hancock must stop his attempted privatisation of cervical cancer screenings as it would further damage a service which is already in crisis, Unite warned today.
The warning follows recent claims by the British Association for Cytopathology that the service is in “meltdown.”
The launch of a Public Health England campaign at the start of this month to encourage more women to attend cervical screenings has led to increased demand — but this coincides with scientific staff leaving laboratories because of uncertainty over their jobs as a result of possible privatisation.
Burnham urged to create publicly-provided national care service before the end of the parliament, and to keep his promise to ditch neoliberalism
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
