NHS ‘corrupted’ by Conservation actions
LABOUR’S NHS, in 1947, was based on universality, 100% based on public taxes, serving every citizen. That is why Conservatives hated it then and opposed it, preferring an insurance scheme.
So, as soon as Conservatives returned to power, they worked to destroy the NHS by privatising huge sections, so that huge portions of public taxes, allocated to the NHS, were then diverted away from any medical purpose.
Like all large corporations, Labour’s NHS had a human resources department, where matters like overtime were settled.
So Conservative Ministries of Health progressively privatised that into agencies, where information came from the NHS, to the agency, to make the decisions about salaries, and back to the NHS, at hugely inflated shareholder costs, profits and salaries, causing resentment for unjust treatment of NHS staff for 70 years.
Mrs Thatcher privatised car parks, hospital cleaning, food preparation, so more public money was progressively diverted from medical treatment, to shareholders, as part of Conservative strategy to undermine Labour’s NHS. When Conservative Governments did spend money on the NHS, less and less of it went to medical care.
Recently Frank Hester was CEO of a private computer corporation, taking information from the NHS, and returning it, at vast NHS expense, beyond corporation profits, sufficient to permit him to donate £5 million to the Conservative Party.
A Labour Government cannot rescue our NHS now, since the taxpayer cannot afford to buy it back from Conservative corruption.