Virgin Care must be kept away from the NHS | Molly Scott Cato

Privatisation has been a disaster for public services. The NHS should be in public hands, not run by corporations like Branson’sRichard Branson’s Virgin Care has hoovered up £2bn worth of NHS contracts over the past five years. This should get the pulse rate of rightwing ideologues racing, and they will no doubt gleefully point to Virgin’s rhetoric about how these contracts have “saved the NHS and local authorities millions”. They will also undoubtedly tr