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We must call a halt to the creeping privatisation of our NHS
Plans by Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust to set up a private company to employ NHS staff are symptomatic of a drive towards US-style healthcare, writes RICHARD BURGON

OUR NHS is Labour’s proudest achievement — a beacon of socialist principles put into practice. But its creeping privatisation continues apace.

Privatisation of our NHS is bad for patients, bad for staff and completely flies in the face of the founding principles of our NHS.

St James’s Teaching Hospital is in my Leeds East constituency. It’s a place that means a lot to me. I was born there and have, along with family and friends, benefited from it ever since. And it means a lot to the community in Leeds who are both patients and employees there. 

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