![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/boost-nhs-instead-of-pouring-taxpayers-cash-into-private-sector-tories-told/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/0_Industrial-strikes.jpg&description=Ministers unveiled plans to 'turbocharge' use of the private sector in the NHS as they admitted the record 7.5 million appointment waiting list in England is likely to increase further Britain should bolster NHS capacity rather than funnel more taxpayers' cash to private firms to do its work, campaigners say. The Tories have launched a new drive to divert £19 billion - almost a tenth of the health budget - to profit-making firms following orders from Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to "turbocharge" use of the private sector Ministers announced the plan as they admitted the record 7.5 million appointment waiting list in England is likely to increase further. The NHS already has some of the lowest rates of medics and hospital beds per capita compared to almost all OECD nations. The Government will relax the rules governing contracts awarded by the NHS and expand private sector involvement. Dr Tony O'Sullivan, co-chair of Keep Our NHS Public and former consultant paediatrician, said: 'Investing yet more public money into the private sector is not the answer. Punishingly low pay in the NHS and care has pushed some struggling staff towards the private sector leaving the NHS diagnostics and clinical services desperately short. 'There is no spare capacity in the private sector that does not do further damage to the NHS, taking NHS staff away, diverting NHS funding, cherry picking non-complex care and using the NHS to send back complications from private treatment. It is NHS capacity that must urgently be rebuilt. 'The Government has clearly found additional funds for healthcare, but has chosen to spend it lining the pockets of shareholders instead of funding a public service, a choice that further erodes the capability of the NHS to deliver timely treatment for all.' During the pandemic the NHS paid billions of pounds to block book capacity in 200 private hospitals but much of it went unused. Initially extra taxpayers' cash will now go to firms operating community diagnostic ce){kind=link}
Ministers unveiled plans to ‘turbocharge’ use of the private sector in the NHS as they admitted the record 7.5 million appointment waiting list in England is likely to increase further
Britain should bolster NHS capacity rather than funnel more taxpayers’ cash to private firms to do its work, campaigners say.
The Tories have launched a new drive to divert £19 billion – almost a tenth of the health budget – to profit-making firms following orders from Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to “turbocharge” use of the private sector Ministers announced the plan as they admitted the record 7.5 million appointment waiting list in England is likely to increase further.
The NHS already has some of the lowest rates of medics and hospital beds per capita compared to almost all OECD nations. The Government will relax the rules governing contracts awarded by the NHS and expand private sector involvement.
Dr Tony O’Sullivan, co-chair of Keep Our NHS Public and former consultant paediatrician, said: “Investing yet more public money into the private sector is not the answer. Punishingly low pay in the NHS and care has pushed some struggling staff towards the private sector leaving the NHS diagnostics and clinical services desperately short.