What ever happened to the Tory promise to build 40 new hospitals?
Well it turns out it’s been yet another broken pledge.
Well it turns out it’s been yet another broken pledge.
The dire poll findings show the sheer scale of dissatisfaction with the Tories, who have vowed to ‘level up the country’, amid rising inequality, poverty and crumbling public services.
“By the definition the government used in 2020, it will not now deliver 40 new hospitals by 2030.”
‘Another of Johnson’s lies in the 2019 election exposed’
The guidance issued to trusts goes on to define what constitutes a new hospital.
“Who knows where we’ll be in six weeks’ time, but it’s not going to be anywhere better than we are now,” says Professor Christine Pagel.
‘The last forty years of neoliberal coup has restructured the UK state so that instead of being a provider of public services it has become a guarantor of corporate profits and enrichment of the few.’
In one extreme case, former breast surgeon Ian Paterson carried out unnecessary and damaging cancer surgery on over 750 women in order to profit.
“Rationing must be called out for what it is – privatisation driven by rationing,” says John Puntis of Keep Our NHS Public.
Every UK citizen owes more than £3,400 to PFI companies – this might be the solution we desperately need.