Tania & Amy's story

In November 2012 Tania’s El-Keria’s daughter, Amy, died in a privately run mental health hospital aged just 14.

The facility was run by private healthcare company the Priory, which was found in court to have committed gross negligence and failures of care which led to Amy’s death.

Following her daughter’s passing, Tania has been fighting to stop NHS privatisation. She is really scared that private companies, like the one that failed Amy, will get more power to decide the future of the NHS and the care it provides to patients.

She said: “The private sector is just about making money. Unfortunately, our vulnerable people are a bank balance to them. I want the private hospitals shut down completely, and it all go back to our NHS.”

In July 2021, Just Treatment launched a powerful campaign film with Tania to oppose the government’s NHS Corporate Takeover Bill - officially called the “Health and Care Bill”.

This bill gives private companies - like Virgin and Serco - a seat on NHS boards. Despite widespread campaigning efforts, the controversial bill passed in November 2021.

In memory of Amy, and of all NHS patients failed by the agenda of NHS privatisation, we will keep campaigning to hold private healthcare corporations to account and to demand the fully-funded and truly public NHS we all need.