24th June 2025

Streeting “I won’t shrink away ……
…from using the private sector“. Well they paid you well enough Wes!

KONP co-chair interview on LBC
John Puntis says “the private sector doesn’t have spare capacity. When it wins contracts it then expands capacity on the back of NHS funds that are diverted to it”. It then steals medics from the NHS.

‘No private finance for hospitals’
The Treasury says “it will only explore the feasibility of using a new private funding model in very limited circumstances where they could represent value for money”. Based on the PFI experience of the 90’s it shouldn’t ever be used.

Public backs better pay for nurses
As NHS staff are given a 3.6% pay increase, three-quarters of voters have told a YouGov poll the profession deserves more money.

Underfunding and privatisation won’t save NHS
A 10-year plan is under preparation to tell us how ‘transformation’ will be achieved. But gains from Labour’s interventions to date are modest and far from transformational.