Future of NHS is on the line in England‏

Seumas Milne writing in today’s Guardian says that the Coalition is planning to privatise the NHS in defiance of the evidence. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jul/14/the-end-of-the-nhs-in-all-but-name

“Lansley's health white paper opens the door to the comprehensive privatisation of healthcare and the end of the NHS as a national service. If the plans are taken to their logical conclusion, by 2015 the NHS will be little more than a brand. From a major public service with a million employees, it will have become a central fund with a minimal workforce, commissioning services from a string of private companies in a fully-fledged healthcare market.”

Next week’s AGM of UNISON’s health service group SGE will be considering how to roll back the Con Dem engineered private sector onslaught against the NHS.