Unhealthy Development
The ideological agenda to commercialise the NHS completely ignores decades of evidence and the expertise of the healthcare profession, driven instead by the interests of private healthcare companies, lobbyists and investors.
Unfortunately this vision of a health system driven by corporate interests does not stop at national borders. For the last few years the Department for International Development (DFID) has increasingly been using the aid budget to promote the privatisation of health services in some of the poorest countries in the world.
UNISON’s latest research Unhealthy Development exposes how DfID is implementing its healthcare privatisation agenda through multilateral agencies, consultants, multi agency programmers and its own private sector investment arm – the CDC Group
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