THE NHS, underfunded for decades, all across the UK, is on its knees, with hospitals overwhelmed, staff exhausted, waiting lists through the roof, community services devastated, potential reinforcements from overseas not welcome, and no money to fund a recovery after Covid and Brexit.

What’s the answer? It’s obvious! Contract it out.

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Hive off all the lucrative stuff to the private sector. Their owners will continue to pile some of the proceeds into the Conservative party funds, there will be plenty exhausted NHS staff desperate to get into a more controlled, less demanding environment, and the NHS will be left with the awkward stuff, the labour-intensive stuff, the unplanned, unpredictable, middle-of-the-night stuff, and so on, until it is no longer viable.

And then, free of EU workers’ rights, the unions devastated, an NHS exhausted, demoralised, underfunded, understaffed and disrespected, the big US medical corporations will be standing by to save the day, to fill the breach, and stuff their boots.

Les Mackay
Dundee