“As she explained in her memoirs, [she] saw privatisation as ‘fundamental to improving Britain’s economic performance’. The UK National Health Service (NHS) is always a political hot potato, but with patient satisfaction at a record high in 2010, it was not top of the agenda ahead of the last general election. This Tory cabinet is the most right-wing in decades – and, unsurprisingly, looks longingly toward the United States, whose president lavishes praise on Boris Johnson as prime minister. Our plans include: Commenting, Therese Coffey, Secretary of State for the Department of Work and Pensions, said: Read more about how this Pension Tax will impact millions of savers (PDF). He’s given millions over the years, including £600,000 since 2017, and he even owns Tory website ConservativeHome. But that is not the only danger of the trade agreement – with privatization also firmly on the card. Roll forward a few years, and Ali Parsa has a new business, Babylon Health, which tries to run NHS and private GP services over smartphones. We do not believe that a trade deal could stop the NHS being publicly funded and free at the point of use. Then as now, Tory governments led to longer waiting lists, staff shortages, and shabby buildings. Back in the 1980s, Ashcroft’s main business was heavily involved in contract cleaning. We’re Celebrating Our 10th Anniversary. After New Labour was replaced by the Tory–Lib Dem coalition, the drive to break apart the NHS as a public, universal, and free service continued. At the same time, Babylon has entered into a controversial sponsorship deal with the Evening Standard, paying them an estimated £500,000 in return for favorable coverage. Meanwhile, waiting times in NHS hospitals are now at their worst level since records began – earlier this year, numbers showed tens of thousands of patients waited more than four hours for a bed. Our great new deal will allow us to get Brexit done immediately so we can focus on our other priorities, like the NHS. In other words, they opposed all those parts of the NHS that made it so popular. In early 1988, the Tories faced a scrappy, grassroots-driven nurses strike over pay. Privatisation has had a huge effect on the global economy. The advantages of the United States from a Tory perspective are clear: a country with huge concentrations of wealth, no Labour Party, and a weak welfare state. New Labour actually started a lot of the farming out of private contracts. But their objections to Bevan’s bill were telling. The moral argument for a public system which delivers free care to everybody, regardless of wealth or status, was once unassailable – and even advocates for increased privatisation still do not question the principle, … He also has a weekly column in the Morning Star. Will any US trade deal increase privatisation? The internal market divided the NHS between, on the one hand, Health Authorities that were allocated budgets to purchase health services and, on the other, NHS Trusts that were contracted to provide services. We will be investing an additional £33.9 billion in frontline NHS services every year by 2023-24, the largest and longest funding settlement in the history of the NHS, with an initial £6.2 billion increase this year. Keep Our NHS Public, NHS Support Federation and other groups have campaigned against the threat of privatisation, largely in England. Tory Lord Ashcroft is one of the party’s biggest donors to this day. Despite cross-party support from Labour, the SNP, Plaid Cymru, and the Green Party, the motion defeated by a margin of just 28, with 281 Conservative MPs, 19 Independent MPs plus all 10 DUP MPs voting against it. There has been no increase in NHS privatisation and there won’t be under a Conservative government. Already on our list? For thirty years after the foundation of the NHS in 1948, its popularity largely protected it from Tory reform attempts. Rogue company Unum’s profiteering hand in the government’s work, health and disability green paper. Conservatives have run the NHS for 44 of its 71 years, and the fabled “Tory privatisation” is yet to materialise. “We’ve been absolutely clear there is going to be no privatisation of the NHS under the Conservative’s watch or this prime minister’s watch,” he said. The Coalition has deliberately financially trashed the NHS to justify its privatisation. New Labour governments after 1997 repaired some of that damage by boosting NHS spending and recruiting more staff. In other words, they opposed all those parts of the NHS that made it so popular. It’s misleading to claim the Lib Dems refused to support an end to NHS privatisation Lib Dems abstained from a motion regretting that the government hasn’t pledged to repeal the 2012 Health and Social Care Act, which extended health privatisation. The NHS has been privatised by stealth for years now. In 1982, Thatcher presented her Cabinet with a plan from her internal government think tank, the Central Policy Review Staff (CPRS). And now they’re attempting to privatize its services — making handsome profits in the process. At the same time, Circle employed a Tory MP, Mark Simmonds, as a £50,000 per year strategic adviser. The NHS is not being privatised. They don’t like that it is big, efficient, and popular: it undermines their arguments that market methods are preferable to public service. But that consensus was broken by Margaret Thatcher’s free market politics. The Conservative Party preferred a health service that wasn’t centralized, in which doctors, nurses, and staff weren’t employed, which continued to rely on charity-run hospitals, and in which free provision was scarce. The socialist purpose of the National Health Service Bill was plainly stated in its first clause: the duty of the Minister of Health to provide a comprehensive health service to improve the physical and mental health of the people, and services to be provided free of charge. At the same time, pressures on NHS budgets require NHS management to reduce costs. The 2019 film ‘The NHS Heist’ revealed that a document from the Conservative Research Department dated as early as 30 June 1977 (i.e. The Prime Minister has said that under no circumstances would we agree to any free trade deal that put the NHS on the table. Thatcher claimed she too objected to the CPRS plan – after it was leaked. Steve Brine served as a minister when Department of Health policies – including rising student debt, rising workloads, poor morale, and capped NHS pay – reduced the supply of UK doctors. Rhetoric around the threat of privatisation in the NHS has also focused on the terms of any potential trade deal with the US after Brexit. In 1990, the Conservative government brought in the ‘internal market’ which opened the door to the privatisation of clinical services. Get a $20 discounted print subscription today, The CIA’s Secret Global War Against the Left. The pattern of senior Tories profiting from NHS privatization has continued throughout the last decade, too. Now he makes money from a company profiting from doctor shortages. Get a $20 discounted print subscription today! Geoffrey Howe resisted, but Thatcher revived the plan in 1987. When Labour minister (and Tribune editor) Aneurin Bevan founded the NHS in the 1940s, Winston Churchill condemned him as a “squalid nuisance.” Churchill’s Conservative Party voted against the NHS’s creation twenty-two times, including at Second and Third Reading, alleging that the legislation “undermines the freedom and independence of the medical profession to the detriment of the nation.”. The Conservative Party preferred a health service that wasn’t centralized, in which doctors, nurses, and staff weren’t employed, which continued to rely on charity-run hospitals, and in which free provision was scarce. By keeping our economy strong, we’ve been able to support our NHS since 2010. PFI, which was also a favorite of New Labour under Tony Blair, wasted billions of NHS money on high charges, and handed yet more NHS cleaning, catering, and maintenance staff to private firms like Carillion. Ashcroft also landed a big chunk of NHS catering services – before cashing in, selling most of his firms, and becoming a billionaire financier. Ashcroft gave around £500,000 to a group called PULSE (the Public and Local Service Efficiency campaign), set up in 1985 to promote the privatization of cleaning services. Catalyst, a new journal published by Jacobin, is out now. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out what may be in store for the NHS if this Tory Party were to win the election. The US trade objectives, published this February, say that any deal should “ensure that state owned entities act in accordance with commercial considerations with respect to the purchase and sale of goods and services.” This means that a state-owned entity, like the NHS, would be restricted in favoring NHS-owned hospitals as a “preferred provider” in future arrangements. The motion was defeated by a margin of just 28 which is encouraging, with 281 Tory MPs, 19 Independent MPs (including 18 former Tories and former Labour MP John Woodcock), plus all 10 DUP MPs voting against. The UK is still in the EU’s Customs Union, which means it can’t formally agree independent trade deals yet. Health secretary John Moore might be forgotten now – but he was once widely seen as Thatcher’s favored successor. In September, he took an extra job, on top of his MP work, as a strategic partner for Remedium, a private agency supplying overseas doctors to NHS trusts struggling with staff shortages. Conservative Party win: Getting Brexit over the line is the core tenant of the Tory campaign, however, the National Health Service is another key factor in the party’s manifesto.. Solomon Hughes has been writing about corporate influence in politics for twenty years, mostly for Private Eye. That’s quite a distance from the party’s pledge that the NHS would be “safe in our hands.”, This shouldn’t be a surprise – Tory resentment for the NHS has been there from the beginning. The 2012 Lansley reforms fragmented the NHS, deepened the internal market, and made handing out private contracts even easier. Instead they have decided to spread lies and score political points, scaring the most vulnerable in our society – the very people they claim to represent. “Privatise” is a word with two completely different meanings, one which is anathema to Labour and the Trade Unions (but nobody else), means that people employed doing work for the NHS are not State employees, but work for private companies or are self employed. Winchester MP Steve Brine was a Tory health minister from June 2017 to March 2019. The Conservative Governments of 1979, 1983, 1987 and 1992 oversaw far-reaching reforms of the National Health Service (NHS) which created much controversy. The NHS is one of the most efficient and trusted healthcare systems in the World. ... but will be a powerful deterrent to any government considering … ... would close the funding gap. As the recent Channel 4 program Dispatches made clear, US trade objectives for any such deal include breaking NHS powers to buy US-made drugs at affordable rates. There is also limited scope to increase the rights of private companies to bid for English health care contracts, because … Corbyn’s claim that the trade negotiations with the US are ‘at a very advanced stage’ is completely untrue. He does keep a small stake, however: one of Aschroft’s companies, Impellam Group, runs temp agencies, including those supplying nurses and locum doctors to the NHS, profiting from shortages of health staff and the NHS reliance on private agencies. Their wages and conditions were cut. This would cost the NHS billions and enrich major drug companies. All … Our new issue –  on the incoming Biden administration – will be out soon. Daniel Leal-Olivas-WPA Pool / Getty Images. In response, the Conservatives promised to ring-fence and protect the NHS budget, increasing spending in line with inflation. Health secretary Matt Hancock has relentlessly promoted Babylon. Labour has for some time argued that the NHS is vulnerable to privatisation under the Conservatives. ... Margaret Thatcher was elected Conservative Party leader in 1975, and her party gained a parliamentary majority in 1979. The 1997 Labour Party manifesto made a specific commitment to end the Conservatives’ internal market in health care, but in government they retained the split between purchasers and providers of healthcare. NHS Privatisation Explained - Not the News - with Jolyon Rubinstein is back with episode 8! Thatcher’s government were happily persuaded and began the privatization. The campaign’s advisory council involved a handful of right-wing Tory MPs, including Gerald Howarth, Neil Hamilton, and Michael Portillo. Remedium says it offers a better deal for the NHS because it supplies permanent staff from overseas, which would be cheaper than paying hourly rates to locum doctors. It's not just the Conservative party in the UK that has been interested in this. The reform itself has proven inefficient and wasteful, but it has allowed private-sector suppliers to be easily slotted in through tendering processes. “The NHS has been kept safe and well funded for most of its life by Conservative Governments,” he said, while Corbyn had been undermining the “wealth creators” who funded public services. There has been no increase in NHS privatisation and there won’t be under a Conservative government. Brine will get £19,200 per year for sixteen hours work each month – or £100 per hour. Subscribe in print for $20 today! Fighting the strikes while trying to increase NHS privatization and cut NHS spending was politically impossible, and John Moore’s star soon faded. “So please stow it.”, But what if we don’t “stow it”? Virtually all GPs have been in this category since the NHS was founded in 1948. It seems that the NHS has been presented with an imperative to cut costs and handed privatisation as an alleged means to this end. By 2025 we will recruit 6,000 more GPs, 6,000 more primary care professionals, as well as 50,000 more nurses. Help Us Stick Around for Many More. Prime Minister Thatcher came into office promising to “denationalise” the … The only reason Corbyn’s Labour are scaremongering like this is to try to distract from their chaotic and muddled position on Brexit. Privatisation of the NHS takes numerous forms, most hidden from public view. The objectives also say that a deal must “increase opportunities for US firms to sell US products and services to the UK” through “government procurement.” The NHS is one of the largest bodies involved in that procurement process – which US corporations clearly view as a large, attractive market. Earlier this month, Michael Gove denied Jeremy Corbyn’s claims that the public don’t trust the Tories with Britain’s public health service. Get our print magazine for just $20 a year. First, in the 1980s, the Conservatives outsourced cleaning and catering services, now run by companies like Interserve and Serco. Clearly Labour don’t want to talk about Brexit because they don’t have anything to say. “So please stow […]. After the salami-slicing of cleaning and catering services, Thatcher’s successor, John Major, continued the drive to privatize under the cover of his gray dullness. After privatization, the number of hospital cleaners dropped massively. The CPRS plan would dismantle the welfare state, scrapping free universal health care, forcing people to take out private insurance, and charging for education. The Standard is edited by former Tory treasurer George Osborne – who gave Hancock his start in politics as a special adviser. And here, the plan to enrich their friends as part of NHS privatization came into play. The result: privatization has more than doubled since 2010. “The NHS has been kept safe and well funded for most of its life by Conservative Governments,” he said, while Corbyn had been undermining the “wealth creators” who funded public services. In 1982, Thatcher pressed her chancellor to look at the Omega Report, drawn up by the Adam Smith Institute, arguing for charging for NHS services and replacing them with insurance schemes. Labour also want to a force a four day working week on the NHS, which would cost it billions every year and roundly criticised by experts as unworkable and would drive down hospital standards. Major also launched a private finance initiative (PFI), whereby the NHS sold its hospitals and used the money to rent back new privately run hospital buildings. Our new issue, “Biden Our Time,” will be out soon. The Government has made clear that negotiations with the US will begin after the UK leaves the EU. Corbyn’s claim that the trade negotiations with the US are ‘at a very advanced stage’ is completely untrue. Circle’s management of the NHS Hinchingbrooke hospital was a much-criticized failure, with the contract ending early. Thanks for the ask. Peter Clarke, the man who ran the PULSE campaign, told the Scotsman newspaper that “nothing unlawful nor improper took place,” but that the venture “was very successful political engineering.” Ashcroft’s companies “prospered in the new market created by PULSE’s lobbying,” he said. Since … “Fund-holding” practices have already been introduced into the NHS by the Conservatives to give doct… If the Conservatives privatised the NHS in one fell swoop then they'd face electoral oblivion which is why they don't do it. While debates around privatisation seem tense right now, the NHS has long sold private contracts for things like hospices, pathology, and radiology services. This is just scaremongering from Labour. Unable to launch a full-frontal assault on the NHS, Thatcher and her successors “salami-sliced” public health care. The Tories will argue that they supported a national health service, just not Labour’s NHS. Britain's prime minister, Boris Johnson, reacts as he meets with NHS workers as they take afternoon tea inside 10 Downing Street on September 3, 2019 in London, United Kingdom. This will allow more people to access care and reduce patients waiting times. “PULSE appeared to be a popular campaign but in truth it was a money-making venture for Mr Ashcroft.”. In 2011, Liz Truss, Priti Patel, Dominic Raab, Kwasi Kwarteng, and Chris Skidmore wrote a manifesto for a more radical Tory Party outside of its pact with the Lib Dems, titled “After the Coalition.” It advocated a health service where “two thirds” of hospitals “are run privately or not-for-profit” and argued that the NHS should “take advantage of the extra efficiencies private companies can provide.” Truss, Patel, Raab, Kwarteng, and Skidmore were the fringe in 2011. Privatisation of the NHS is a fraught topic at any general election, and was high on the agenda in the battle between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn back in December. It has been argued that the standard of treatment for patients is … Privatisation gives ordinary people the chance to become share holders in the health service. ... cronyism … In recent years, Conservative governments have overseen a massive increase in NHS privatization, with billions of pounds of contracts handed out to private providers. But the most notorious example of recent years relates to investor Ali Parsa’s health business, Circle Health. The origins of NHS privatisation. Sadly, Labour lost the vote to amend the Queen's speech and protect the NHS from further privatisation 282-310. Moore launched plans to replace the NHS with insurance schemes, but he was met with a protest movement. We are providing £1.8 billion for 20 hospital upgrades and 300 new MRI and CT scanners, as well as £2.7 billion for 6 new hospitals and seed funding for up to 38 more to be built. Sure enough, Babylon’s sponsored series in the Standard included an interview with Hancock as health secretary, lavishly praising their products. It shook the government – “Thatcher Frightened of Meeting the Nurses,” ran one Times headline. And if this wasn’t bad enough – top Tories have repeatedly tried to profit from privatization of NHS services. But because of the Brexit deadlock it recently hasn’t had the attention it deserves. “Tory hopefuls are being told not to make promises the party has no intention of keeping. They have tended to both underfund the NHS and to try to break up state provision by handing as much of the NHS as possible to private firms. The Government has been clear that the preliminary conversations between the US and UK, which these papers cover, are just to ensure that ‘both sides are well prepared to open trade negotiations after the UK leaves the EU’. Responding to a leaked Conservative document warning party candidates not to sign up to pledges that protect the NHS from trade deals and privatisation, UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: “The Conservatives can’t be trusted with our precious NHS and this briefing note proves it. Behind the scenes, he lobbied for privatization of cleaning NHS hospitals and schools. We will be building 40 new hospitals and upgrading 20 more, ensuring extra funding for the NHS goes straight to the front line. This may well be true, but a better supply and retention of UK NHS doctors would be cheaper still. That is why I’m bringing forward my NHS Protection Bill – to protect Scotland’s health service from US-style privatisation in any post- Brexit trade deals.” A long-term user of the NHS, having lived with motor neurone disease for more than 50 years, Hawking wrote in The Guardian that the NHS is “the fairest way to deliver healthcare”. Thatcher’s Cabinet rebelled and rejected the idea. The CPRS report said, “For the majority, the change would represent the abolition of the NHS.”. Added to this is an additional £2 billion a year from 2015/16 … ... is that claims made by the Conservatives to be the party of the NHS must be rejected as a falsification of history. Promoted by Alan Mabbutt on behalf of the Conservative Party, both at 4 Matthew Parker Street, London, SW1H 9HQ. Their aim is to remake Britain in the United States’ image, with a major step being the proposed free-trade agreement that will follow Brexit. The Cameron government gave Circle Health a contract to run a whole NHS hospital, Hinchingbrooke, in 2011. He introduced two key measures: first, the “internal market” of 1990, which introduced a for-profit structure to the NHS. Margaret Thatcher strongly supported the initiative, as did the majority of her government, and considered it as a fundamental to improve the economic performance. Earlier this month, Michael Gove denied Jeremy Corbyn’s claims that the public don’t trust the Tories with Britain’s public health service. But there remained significant differences between even the most right-wing Labour governments and the Tories when it came to the NHS. Boris Johnson has stacked his cabinet with MPs who dream of another thrust of Thatcherite free-market reforms. The Conservatives have been running our NHS for 44 of its 71 years, and fundamentally believe it’s there for everyone in the country to rely on free at the point of use. The NHS is not being privatised. © 2020 Copyright The Conservative Party. The Tories have tried to undermine the National Health Service since its creation. It has spurred economic growth and improved living standards as privatised businesses cut costs, increased service quality, and innovated. What we have seen from the Conservatives is increased private involvement in the NHS, and some of those who voted for it in parliament have links to private healthcare companies and stand to financially benefit, so there's a conflict of interest issue there too. In a parliamentary procedure known as a ‘regret motion’, Labour MPs made the case against NHS privatisation using the recent collapse of Carillon as an example. “Under the SNP, the NHS will always remain in public hands. This is just scaremongering from Labour. To this day, the Tories resent the NHS. The privatization of the NHS is a web of these kind of relationships between Tory politicians and their business friends. The NHS is undoubtedly in crisis. But, in fact, she encouraged her ministers to keep considering ending the NHS. But it also chimed with her … Now they are all ministers. 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