NHS - SAFE IN OUR HANDS ????????

Spotted these figures on the Compass website from a Tameside (Greater Manchester ) doctor.
NHS privatisation , far from being mothballed, is steadily eroding the ideals on whuch Nye Bevan founded Labour's greteast achievement in 1948.

"Prior to 1997, the NHS was buying less than £200m a year of private treatment; this is estimated to have increased to £4bn by 2007. As much as 15% of cherry-picked elective surgery will be hived off to private hospitals, leaving NHS trusts to cover the complex and Cinderella services. PFI schemes worth more than £5bn have been completed since 1997, with another £12bn under negotiation - all of them locking trusts into costly, long-term leasehold deals."