The surprising number of coronavirus deaths in Scottish care homes conceals a greater scandal about the hollowing out of the the UK National Health Service. The 1996 privatisation of care homes was described by Allyson Pollock and Colin Leys in NHS PLC as “one of the most under-reported sell-offs of the Thatcher and Major years”, writes Ben Wray in Source Direct.
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