Lydia Conwell :mastodon:<p><a href="https://todon.nl/tags/Skwawkbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Skwawkbox</span></a> | Starmer just abolished the NHS, not just the ‘NHS England’ quango</p><p>"Presented as an efficiency move, to get rid of duplicate layers of management within the NHS, it is in fact a move to complete the long-underway break-up of the National Health Service into 42 autonomous ‘Integrated Care Boards’ (ICBs) that will each independently commission services – and will be incentivised not to treat people, by giving ICBs a share of the ‘savings’ generated by rationing or withholding care."</p><p><a href="https://skwawkbox.org/2025/03/14/starmer-just-abolished-the-nhs-not-just-the-nhs-england-quango/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">skwawkbox.org/2025/03/14/starm</span><span class="invisible">er-just-abolished-the-nhs-not-just-the-nhs-england-quango/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://todon.nl/tags/NHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NHS</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Starmer</span></a></p>