[anonymousDan]

I think you're missing the forest for the trees here. The NHS is supposed to be a public service, but to undermine public support for it the UK government have been slowly trying to hack off bits of it to give to the private sector and strategically underfunding it. If they could get away with it they would probably sell the NHS down the river to US healthtech in order to get a US trade deal. So people are rightly sensitive to anything that appears to point to large private sector companies gaining an increased foothold in the NHS

[timellis-smith]

Do you have any evidence for this or are you just sprouting tired old anti-government rhetoric.

> Overall, there is no evidence of a significant increase in spending on private providers or widespread privatisation of services in recent years. https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/publications/articles/big-elect...

[stuaxo]

You really don't have to look very far it's really well known.

Just look up the NHS and public private partnership.

The numbers were cooked from the beginning to make it look cheaper, see issues of private eye from around the y2k till about now.