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GMB reaction to privatisation of Hinchingbrooke healthcare NHS trust

10 November 2011

GMB is watching this closely from the treatment of GMB members and their patients at the Trust to the financial engineering that the health and care sectors

Rehana Azam, GMB National Officer said, “GMB is watching this closely from the treatment of GMB members and their patients at the Trust to the financial engineering that the health and care sectors readily use to syphon money away to tax havens from its intend caring purpose. I have commissioned our researchers, who predicted the demise of Southern Cross due to the excesses of the landlords, to do a full investigation and to follow the money.

The Hinchingbrooke take over is no different to hedge funds coming into the sector to asset strip and it is the patients and staff that will suffer. To think a private company will have the welfare of patients and staff at the heart of its motive is just untrue. Private providers are there to make profit and this is just the start of what will happen to the NHS as the Health Bill becomes a reality. Circle has masked this takeover under the heading of social enterprising it will only be a matter of time before profit will be put before patients or those who have the cash to pay take priority.”



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