Easington MP Grahame Morris has welcomed the support of Labour Leader Ed Miliband opposing the Coalition Government’s back door privatisation of the NHS.
In a rare move, Ed Miliband has tabled a House of Commons early day motion calling for section 75 of the Health and Social Care Act to be annulled.
The regulation say the clinical commissioning groups must “treat providers equally and in a non-discriminatory way, including by not treating a provider, or type of provider, more favourably than any other provider, in particular on the basis of ownership”.
The regulations directly contradict promises made by former Health Secretary Andrew Lansley that clinical commissioning groups would not be forced to put services out to tender, and that the bill would not permit the transfer of NHS activities.
Grahame Morris MP, who serves on the Health Select Committee, welcomed Ed Miliband’s support
“This matter is vitally important in safeguarding the future of the NHS. Parliament must have an opportunity to debate and scrutinise the regulations the Government tried to sneak through via a statutory instrument.
I am delighted that Ed Miliband has demonstrated his opposition by calling for the regulation to be annulled.
The Health Select Committee will scrutinise these fundamental changes to the NHS in a special session due on Tuesday 19th March, but what we need is for the Secretary of State for Health to think again and stop the privatisation and destruction of our NHS”
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EDM 1104 – NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (S.I., 2013, NO. 257)
That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, praying that the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) Regulations 2013 (S.I., 2013, No. 257), dated 11 February 2013, a copy of which was laid before this House on 13 February, be annulled.Grahame Morris MP
