Watch: Leaked document shows Tories plan to privatise NHS
In an exclusive report tonight, a document seen by Channel 4 News shows how plans are laid out for how NHS services will be bought for patients.
The document, Developing Commissioning Support: Towards Services Excellence, is a draft sent out to various health organisations.
Under the NHS reforms, GP practices will form consortia and they will manage about 60 per cent of England’s NHS budget. But it has been acknowledged that some GPs will not want to – or be capable of – managing such huge enterprises.
Richard Vautrey, deputy chair of the British Medical Association’s (BMA) GP committee, said that the document was quite explicit in suggesting that the government was going to create a market for private companies to come in and take over these services and that commissioning groups would be too small do without support.
Watch the Channel 4 report
Unsurprisingly, not a single government minister was offered to Channel 4 to defend the document.
via @joncstone
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