{"id":10573,"date":"2016-11-14T16:06:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T16:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=10573"},"modified":"2016-11-14T16:06:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T16:06:02","slug":"dont-trash-our-nhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=10573","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Don&#8217;t trash our NHS&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Unite&#8217;s response on learning that Virgin Care has become the first private firm in the country to run adult social care after being handed a controversial \u00c2\u0141700m deal by Tory-led\u00c2\u00a0Bath and North East Somerset council:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bYou can bet that Virgin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s perspective of a surplus will differ radically from the tax payers. Any money that is saved, probably on the back of cost cutting, will be expected to go back to Virgin Care\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s shareholders.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is what the Tory vision of healthcare in this country looks like: vital NHS services sold off to companies whose primary motivation is money. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bad for staff, bad for patients and bad for the country. We need a government that treasures the NHS, not one that trashes it.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em><strong>Sarah Carpenter Unite national officer for health<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite&#8217;s response on learning that Virgin Care has become the first private firm in the country to run adult social care after being handed a controversial \u00c2\u0141700m deal by Tory-led\u00c2\u00a0Bath and North East Somerset council: &nbsp; \u00e2\u20ac\u015bYou can bet that Virgin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s perspective of a surplus will differ radically from the tax payers. Any money that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[29,81],"wps_subtitle":"Unite warns govt as Virgin wins \u00c2\u0141700m care deal ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10574,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10573\/revisions\/10574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}