Reply To: NHS – will it survive?

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I would like to see a breakdown of spending on PFI vs actual patient care. I suspect a great deal of front line money is going to private service providers and their shareholders (or not, as in the case of Carillion, who took the profits and left the risk to the taxpayer). And VERY swish buildings – our local hospital has beautiful frontage and entrance lobby, but is struggling with patient care and targets. And highly paid managers who think perception and appearances are important. But you can’t ask them to sort out the issues, they are hardly going to tell it like it really is.
On a brighter note, I don’t think the public would stand for privatisation as per the insurance system in the USA, and the politicians know it