The biggest privatisation in NHS history: why we had to blow the whistle | Kate Godfrey

Staffordshire was planning a £1.2bn sell-off of cancer and end-of-life care without proper patient consultation. But now a key leaked document reveals all

I’m not a journalist, but as of this morning I know what it feels like to be part of the biggest leak in NHS history.

Published on openDemocracy, the memorandum of information for the £700m sell-off of Staffordshire cancer services is now available for the 800,000 directly affected and 3 million indirectly affected patients to read online.

Time and time again we have seen Staffordshire used as the proving ground for the 2012 Health and Social Care Act

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