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Should the NHS be politicised?

NHS bosses have warned politicians against using the health service as "vote bait"

NHS Providers chief Chris Hopson warns politicians against "weaponising" the health service and using the issue for "advancing a particular political argument". However, shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth tells us it was right for hospital leaders "to hold us politicians to account", but this would not stop him from speaking out about the "mushrooming" privatisation of the NHS.

(Image: hospital ward, credit: Science Photo Library)

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