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Facing legal challenge, Tories hint about scrapping some NHS reforms – but remain wedded to privatising 'solutions'

The effects of the 2012 Health and Social Care Act are now too disastrous to ignore. But Jeremy Hunt’s shift is of rhetoric, not of substance - .and his new “ACO” plans are so dangerous, campaigners this week challenged them in the High Court.

By Tommy Greene
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Image: Campaigners in front of the High Court this week as their Judicial Review opened. Credit: Daniel Lucas/Dpict Media

The leader of the Opposition’s opening gambit in PMQs this week was to put Theresa May on the spot over how much of NHS services are currently being outsourced to the private sector. Rather predictably, she had no answer of substance to this question.

Most people are aware by now that the NHS is at breaking point. But what much of the public are still in the dark about is exactly how this crisis is happening or being navigated.

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