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Letters Labour’s united party conference

NHS privatisation is real

BMJ 2022; 379 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.o2668 (Published 10 November 2022) Cite this as: BMJ 2022;379:o2668
  1. Nick Mann, general practitioner
  1. London, UK
  1. drnickmann{at}gmail.com

Cowper says, “Health campaigning during the Corbyn era was largely against fictional NHS privatisation.”1

Privatisation of the NHS is not fictional. US Centene is now the largest single provider of GP services in England.2 It also majority owns Circle and shares in US Babylon,34 US UnitedHealth recently bought EMIS, and it and McKinsey have regularly advised the government and steered sustainability …

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