The Kings Fund has at last criticised the government’s NHS ‘reforms’ as costly and 'damaging' to the NHS. Their intervention is welcome - though begs the question, what is the point of a ‘think tank’ that is 4 years too late in telling us what everyone else knew all along.
But there is a bigger problem with the Kings Fund report. While noting that the reforms have resulted in greater marketization of the NHS they conclude that ‘claims of mass privatisation’ were exaggerated.
