{"id":316900,"date":"2017-07-12T01:25:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T00:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-national-health-service-destruction-continues-with-mass-land-sell-off\/"},"modified":"2017-07-12T01:25:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T00:25:46","slug":"uk-national-health-service-destruction-continues-with-mass-land-sell-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-national-health-service-destruction-continues-with-mass-land-sell-off\/","title":{"rendered":"UK National Health Service destruction continues with mass land sell-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>UK National Health Service destruction continues with mass land sell-off<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Dennis Moore<br \/>\n    <br \/>11 July 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The Conservative government of Theresa May is proposing to sell off billions of pounds in National Health Service (NHS) property.<\/p>\n<p>The move was prepared by a review by Sir Robert Naylor. The former boss of the NHS trust that runs University College Hospital published his report in March after Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt commissioned him to look at what could be done with \u201csurplus\u201d NHS property and old buildings and to \u201cdevelop a new NHS estate strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A number of proposals include selling off \u00a32 billion of NHS land, equivalent to 5 million square metres, more than five times the size of London\u2019s Hyde Park. The land could be used to build 26,000 new homes. This figure could rise to \u00a35 billion if extended to high-value land in London.<\/p>\n<p>Naylor\u2019s review is based around the cynical justification that because many NHS units are \u201cunfit for purpose and will continue to deteriorate\u201d\u2014which is entirely due to a lack of investment going back years\u2014the health service faces a \u00a310 billion infrastructure funding gap.<\/p>\n<p>Writing in the manner of a company executive, Naylor states there is \u201cno traditional business case\u201d to justify the cost of fixing and maintaining buildings and equipment. What is required instead is the sale of land occupied by NHS services that are no longer used in order to facilitate further billions in cuts to be imposed throughout the NHS in sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) by NHS trusts nationally. Naylor\u2019s review notes that Hunt has already taken action to begin the design of a new NHS Property Board. This \u201cpowerful new NHS Property Board \u2026 provides leadership to the centre and expertise and delivery support to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/07\/11\/nayl-j11.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 UK National Health Service destruction continues with mass land sell-off By Dennis Moore 11 July 2017 The Conservative government of Theresa May is proposing to sell off billions of pounds in National Health Service (NHS) property. The move was prepared by a review by Sir Robert Naylor. The former boss of the NHS trust [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-316900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}