Think-tank claims NHS privatisation has remained ‘broadly stable’ – but facts say otherwiseAn influential ‘independent’ think-tank that once recommended the cutting back of ‘acute’ health services has published a Twitter thread claiming that the Tories’ privatisation of the NHS is a ‘myth’, because – supposedly – the proportion of NHS spending on provision by private firms has stayed ‘broadly stable’ for the past ten years. This, according to the King’s Fund, is ‘broadly stable’ spending. Such is the diseased state of our ‘mainstream’ media and our public discourse that many people are more or less unaware of this, while false claims about spending, privatisation and all the other Establishment lies are almost never challenged – even when they’re completely counterfactual. The site is provided free of charge but depends on the support of its readers to be viable. If you wish to republish this post for non-commercial use, you are welcome to do so – see here for more.

Source: Daily Mirror August 04, 2022 14:05 UTC