Like the Greens, Labour want to build Neighbourhood Health Centres. Unlike the Greens, Labour’s version would not be community-owned NHS assets, but hedge fund & private equity owned investment “opportunities”. Have we not learned from water, PFI 1, etc? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
It's classic Rachel Reeves insanity.
Oh they have learnt that this model is very, very profitable for them and their corporate friends...
That's what happened with the Walk-in Centres of the Noughties. Really good provision (you could drop in on your way to/from work/evenings, etc) but they mostly closed at the end of their initial contracts, presumably because not enough money to be made from them.
Waste of money. Like walk in centres which were shut down when a) they didn't divert people from A&E b) they ran into safeguarding issues because didn't have links to GP & A&E computer systems c) they couldn't afford the IT necessary for b). Due to the clearout of NHSE, organisational memory lost.
I see Blairite minister-turned-PFI industry stooge John Hutton has been working hard on getting the government to adopt this expensive approach to building infrastructure and oooof they must think we are really stupid
"Past mistakes must be avoided" says government rushing headlong into exact same mistakes
We have learned. A tiny group of people made a very lot of money and that's what matters.
SureStart centres that offered universal provision was one of the few positives from New Labour under Blair.
Stroud sounds Familiar
Coming from an Electrical Engineering background, have found many Green stance's out of synch with my Centre Left belief, but Their viewpoint on the NHS is to be Commended!
These Labour goons are desperate to sell stuff to private equity companies. It seems to have more to do with their future employment than genuine public service. This is theft-from-the-public-Labour-style.