Accelerating Privatisation

After everything which has been sacrificed, we see the government cynically using the crisis and its aftermath to accelerate privatisation, giving huge contracts to the likes of Serco and DeLoitte and Internet giants for badly- functioning test and trace systems. It’s trying to bail out and boost the for-profit Private Hospital sector by handing over all elective surgery, threatening that temporary reductions in NHS provision are made permanent. And it’s pushing with all its might for the expansion of on-line services to replace GP and out-patient appointments, in the interest of its US and other lobbyists in the private on-line health care sector. And all this further enabled by its US Trade Deals.

Accelerating Privatisation

After everything which has been sacrificed, we see the government cynically using the crisis and its aftermath to accelerate privatisation, giving huge contracts to the likes of Serco and DeLoitte and Internet giants for badly- functioning test and trace systems. It’s trying to bail out and boost the for-profit Private Hospital sector by handing over all elective surgery, threatening that temporary reductions in NHS provision are made permanent. And it’s pushing with all its might for the expansion of on-line services to replace GP and out-patient appointments, in the interest of its US and other lobbyists in the private on-line health care sector. And all this further enabled by its US Trade Deals.

So, what can we do?

​If you work in health or social care: keep active in your Union and demand better pay and conditions for health and social-care workers; campaign against migrant-charging
 
Join up with Nurses United or People before Profit Covid Activists group
 
Publicise and join some of the events listed on Calendar page, and encourage others to sign up to our campaign group. (Please only attend events if you are currently well, are not in a Covid high risk group, and are satisfied you can keep a safe distance).
 
Take a look at this official local survey from Sussex Health Care Commissioners, which tries to elicit your approval of on-line services, and think about what may be lost if you opt for them.
 
Display your placards and posters
 
Demand answers from the Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee and Health and Wellbeing Board (Wed 15th July and Tues 28th July, Hove Town Hall)