Billions were wasted after the upheaval of 2012. Hospitals forced to compete, not cooperate. Will we get an apology?
Finally, here comes the confession from the Conservatives that they have done monumental damage to the NHS. The great upheaval created by Andrew Lansley in 2012, with the support of the Liberal Democrats, blew the NHS into fragments, each compelled to compete and submit to private tender to “any willing provider”.
The Health and Social Care Act’s anti-NHS ideology, trying to create an artificial “market”, was “big enough to be seen from space” said the NHS chief executive at the time. Now, a white paper expected shortly and leaked to the Health Policy Insight website last Friday sweeps away this whole misbegotten disaster.
