NHS 10-year plan will embed privatisation and hollow out the health service | NHS

Your editorial stipulates that the government will be judged on the state of the NHS (the Guardian View on Labor du NHS: where is the plan to deliver them?, September 22). It is a pity that he does not also consider the risks for the future of the NHS posed by the 10 -year health plan, which goes from external patients from public hospitals to the health centers of the district funded by the public and undertakes to contract the services of the NHS, to integrate privatization.

Those who feel relaxed about the use of the private sector to provide NHS care should note the devastating impact he has on the eye care of the NHS and the research of the Center for Health and the public interest showing that on average £ £ 1 that the NHS pays for a cataract of operations discloses in the form of profit. They should also take into account the implicit warnings in the book of Sam Freedman State failure: why nothing works and how we repair it: in 1979, 64% of the social care beds were provided by the state, but in 2012, it was 6%. Obviously, the contraction leads to a loss of state capacity to be delivered.

There are real fears that the NHS is hollowed out and shares the same fate as social care: something that everyone wants to be there if it needed it, but that the state no longer has the means – or the will – to deliver.
Margaret Greenwood
Former Wirral West MP