Colin Hockley

The Dirty War on the National Health Service (2019) Everyone in Britain should watch this film and everyone who claims to care about the NHS should rightly be outraged. The path the NHS has been set on by the Health and Social Care Act 2012 is a betrayal by our politicians on so many levels but most fundamentally by removing responsibility for the health of citizens from the Secretary of State for Health, a duty which the post had carried since the inception of the NHS in 1948. The stark picture painted in the film of where this path it is leading should ring alarm bells for all who believe in the principles of the NHS, principles which will be lost in the relentless pursuit of profit masquerading as innovation and choice, and ending with the state as health insurance provider not a provider of healthcare. Billions of pounds are already diverted from care to managing the current levels of 'privatisation' much of which is distributed to shareholders while the NHS fails to maintain standards and keep up with service demand. When current politicians announce ‘our NHS is not for sale’ they are either not telling the truth or they are ignorant. Either way they are complicit in the deceit. This film should act as a rallying call for those who believe in rolling back the privatisation and reinstating responsibility for the health care of citizens to the Secretary of State for Health.