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Privatisation of health interventions and treatments 

Diagnostic services

The Guardian     (23rd February 2022)     NHS lacks 6,000 staff needed to run testing centres in England
The Lowdown    (1st December 2021)   Pathologists call for boost to NHS capacity amidst widespread outsourcing
The Lowdown    (15th November 2021)   NHS diagnostics losing out to the private sector
The Chronicle    (9th November 2021)    Privatisation fears over private firm’s involvement in building new South Tyneside hospital site
The Lowdown     (1st May 2021)     NHS imaging: national privatisation threat

 

Dentistry

‘An NHS dentist for everyone’ isn’t a big ask in 2021, in the 5th richest country in the world:
 

Eye Surgery

KONP / Roger Nettleship, Save South Tyneside Hospital Campaign)   (6th March 2026)     Privatised eye care is undermining NHS provision – challenge for campaigners
“By cutting investments to the NHS and investing in the private sector the capacity of the NHS to treat patients is inevitably reduced.  Access to health care particularly in the most deprived communities like in South Tyneside, in Sunderland and in the North East are being reduced even further. In other words, safeguarding the future of the NHS means standing against the lie that privatisation and outsourcing increases the capacity of the NHS to treat patients.”
The Lowdown     (20th February 2022)        Doctors warned that privateers are destabilising NHS eye surgery

 

Hospitals

The Guardian    (24th April 2022)   NHS paying £2bn a year to private hospitals for mental health patients
The Guardian     (17th March 2022)   ‘Betting against the NHS’: £1bn private hospital to open in central London
The Lowdown    (21st February 2022)     Trust opens new surgery facility to avoid outsourcing care to private hospitals
Mail Online     (18th January 2022)     Sajid Javid plans ‘academy school’ style NHS revolution with successful hospitals given more freedom and failing ones left facing takeover in bid to reduce waiting times
The Lowdown     (4th May 2021)   London NHS hospital next to expand private patients