Back Door Nhs Privatisation? ; How Long Before Tesco - Arguably the Most Successful Company in Britain - Gets Invited to Take Over a Poorly Performing Health Trust, Perhaps Here in the Westcountry, Bringing Its Proven Formula of Retailing to the Business of Heart Bypass Operations and Cancer Treatment?

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How long before Tesco - arguably the most successful company in Britain - gets invited to take over a poorly performing health trust, perhaps here in the Westcountry, bringing its proven formula of retailing to the business of heart bypass operations and cancer treatment?

A decade or more ago the idea of privatising parts of the health service in that kind of way would have been unthinkable. Under a Labour Government even suggesting such a thing would have been enough to have the speaker drummed out of the party, so talismatic was the NHS to the Labour movement.

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Back Door Nhs Privatisation? ; How Long Before Tesco - Arguably the Most Successful Company in Britain - Gets Invited to Take Over a Poorly Performing Health Trust, Perhaps Here in the Westcountry, Bringing Its Proven Formula of Retailing to the Business of Heart Bypass Operations and Cancer Treatment?

Yesterday, however, health minister and Exeter MP Ben Bradshaw went on to national radio and calmly unveiled the policy of handing failing hospitals over to private enterprise,...

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