The government’s recently announced plans to tackle huge waiting lists by investing billions in the private sector will not end the crisis. Using private finance to rebuild our hospitals is expensive and wrong. It will actually make things worse

The NHS is on its knees after well after over a decade of neglect and creeping privatisation from successive governments. The truth is the NHS model is not broken: it just needs to be funded to succeed and restored to its founding principles.

The current government’s plan is to expand private involvement in the NHS is a big mistake. We must put patients before profit.