The causes

When a private company gets involved in providing healthcare, the focus becomes less about what the patient needs - and more about what their shareholders want.

Over the last decade the government has made a huge push to place more and more money and power within the NHS in the hands of these corporations. But this has led to worse pay and conditions for vital NHS workers, and worse outcomes for patients.

Meanwhile drug companies have been able to hold NHS patients’ lives to ransom because of their monopolies on medicines. These monopolies mean the companies can charge sky-high knowing no one else can make or sell the drug.

The government cares more about the powerful lobbyists from big pharma and private healthcare corporations than they do about us. So if we are to make a change and put patients ahead of profits we need a new movement for the NHS to force the government to listen.