article_snippet: ‘privatisation’ by capping profits of firms providing care has come under fierce attack from a former Labour health minister.
article_snippet: We’ll scrap David Cameron’s market framework for the NHS and stop the tide of privatisation.
article_snippet: No company working with the NHS will be able to profit by cherry picking: rejecting patients with the more complex and expensive needs for cherry picking own
article_snippet: Critics accuse party of hypocrisy, since expenditure on NHS services provided free of charge by private providers has risen at a slower rate since 2010 than in the four years before, when Labour was in power.
article_snippet: ‘the use of private sector providers in the NHS – runs the risk of being one of these pre-election promises which doesn’t stand up when confronted with the reality of government.
article_snippet: The Labour peer said some senior people in The Labour peer party appeared overly ‘preoccupied’ with the issue of private sector involvement in the NHS, insisting:
article_snippet: Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said: ‘If you bankrupt the economy like Labour did last time
article_snippet: We can only have a strong NHS if We have a strong economy, but Ed Miliband doesn’t have an economic plan.
article_snippet: We all know Labour want to “weaponise” the NHS
article_snippet: o this is no more than a gimmick to scare people about privatisation that isn’t happening.
article_snippet: ‘The real issue for the future of the NHS is how to fund the growing needs of an ageing population, and by tearing up an economic plan that is working Labour would threaten the real increases in funding that Conservatives are promising.
article_snippet: No one can deliver a strong NHS without a strong economy.
article_snippet: But Dr Mark Porter, chair of the British Medical Association council, backed Labour.‘Proposals to remove the most damaging elements of the Health and Social Care Act 2012, to support more joined up care and to prevent the private sector from cherry picking the most profitable services are a step in the right direction,’ he said.
article_snippet: Liberal Democrat Health Minister Norman Lamb said: ‘Liberal Democrats in government put an end to Labour's sweetheart deals with the private sector, while the independent King's Fund has poured cold water on Labour's claims about privatisation.
article_snippet: ‘Only the Liberal Democrats have a credible plan to invest the £8bn per year by 2020 that NHS bosses say is needed.
article_snippet: Dr Louise Irvine, of the National Health Action Party, said Labour’s plan
article_snippet: ‘won't stop the NHS NHS from teetering over the cliff-edge’.
article_snippet: The bottom line is that Labour's policies will leave the NHS under-resourced and open to continued privatisation, which will make it impossible to provide a comprehensive, high quality, efficient and safe health service,’ she added.
article_snippet: For example, Virgin do not currently record a profit in the UK on Virgin NHS contracts.‘Labour's commitments on the NHS are lukewarm and tinkering around the edges.
highlights_snippet: Comes after party made the NHS a central issue of the NHS election campaign .
  