Unions and NHS Campaigners warn that the health and social-care plans made by the Tories have no real substance and are just top-down reorganizations that can speed up privatizations in the UK.
Here is everything you need to know:
- Tory leaders have been working to come up with health and social care plans for some time now.
- Health Secretary Matt Hancock said that their proposal will help to integrate the National Health Service, social care, and local government.
- This means they will be facilitated with more front line support. However, Unions have expressed their resentment for the plan.
- This is because the plan fails to address the basic issues of adequate funding or the damage that the previous Tory reformation has done with years of privatization.
- They have thus warned that the plans will weaken the democratic accountability in the NHS (whatever is left of it) and continue to facilitate private-sector involvements.
- Unite Union spokesperson said, there was “too much rhetoric from Health Secretary Matt Hancock on tackling bureaucracy”.
- Unite national officer, Jackie Williams said that the last NHS reform by the Tories made back in 2012 gave, “too much sway to the profit-hungry private sector,” which the current proposals do not mention.
- GMB national secretary Rehana Azam talked about Boris’s promise to fix social care within 12 months of being elected and said, “They couldn’t keep that promise”.
- Shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth has challenged the idea and said that the reformation of the plans will see less privatization.
