Image: Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt - latest in a line of ministers accused of putting ideology before evidence
After many years working in the NHS and several years of campaigning for a publicly-owned health service, I have come to realise a big truth. A systematic experiment has been imposed upon the NHS for over 30 years.
I am puzzled by MPs who tell their constituents that they support the NHS - yet refuse to entertain the only piece of legislation in decades that makes a serious attempt to reverse the costly experiment of privatisation, marketisation and out-sourcing. This month, the NHS (Reinstatement) Bill was presented in parliament by Caroline Lucas – but few MPs showed up to support it, meaning it was easy for others to talk it out.
