Stop MPs profiting from NHS privatisation
"Many MPs are making money for themselves by selling-off our National Health Service to private companies.Privatisation means that public funds are used to pay for private sector provision of NHS services. This means taxpayers’ money is going into the profits of companies and their shareholders instead of into patient care.
The Department of Health’s annual accounts for 2013-14 showed £10bn-worth of NHS business went to other providers. It’s rising by about £1bn every year and needs to be stopped. If MPs are banned from having investments in these companies, they will be less supportive of further privatisation, and maybe the NHS can be saved.
Please sign my petition to the Commons Select Committee on Standards (the people who make rules for MPs), demanding that MPs be banned from investing in private healthcare companies......"