T he succession of top-level reports slamming stanwould CHOS OCTE hospitals should sound new alarm bells over Labour's tuture plans extend privatisation in what is still the most popular of all public services.
Health Secretary Alan tion the Audit Commission findings that expense. trolley waits and delays are getting than better in hospita. Accident & Emergency departments was announce extra moneyup" the private hospitals!
Another £40m will be used to encourage Trusts to divert few years. another 25,000 waiting list tor- more than doubling the numbers from last year willie only Livm 15 to 0c used to speed up elective treatment in NHS hospitals.
The logical conclusion of reports this approach would be that our busy keacral gospitats be increasingly reduced to sign of with an AxE denartment. and carrying our the more problems Tsay sive acta tions which the private sec- chronic cor refuses to take on - while the NHS the booming private medical industry fills its beds and its the private M ilburn has further, KOHe 888888 and told the Commons mittee that he plans to "buy NHS.
entire capacity of And amid some private Dospitais 1or a and "monopolise" them for NH$ patients But such an expansion of private medical treatment from staff from NHS hospitals, their perfor-