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The Great NHS Heist (2019)
126 min | Documentary

The Great NHS Heist (2019)

126 min | Documentary

The British National Health Service is the nation's proudest achievements, lifting burden from the sick, copied across the world, But it has been under sustained attack over decades by successive governments. Realising that privatisation ...See moreThe British National Health Service is the nation's proudest achievements, lifting burden from the sick, copied across the world, But it has been under sustained attack over decades by successive governments. Realising that privatisation would be unpopular. The Thatcher Government instead started a program of out sourcing that was continued and expanded under the Blair New Labour Government and up to the present. It required careful planning and a series of legal and structural changes spanning thirty years to bring it to the brink of American corporate capture; or as one former policy adviser put it, reduced to 'a funding stream and a logo' A docile and complicit media have failed to hold power to account and inform the public about what is really happening to their NHS. Austerity and chaos over Brexit has provided perfect cover for the engineered failure of services, necessary to persuade the public to fall out of love with the NHS. NHS land, patient data and tax-funded budgets are all up for grabs. How did we get here? This film reveals "The Great NHS Heist." "Even if you only care about efficiency the National Health Service should be preserved like a jewel" - Yanis Varoufakis Interviews with : Written by Bob Gill See less

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25 cast members

Name	Known for
Phil Booth Self Self See fewer	Surviving a Serial Killer (2021)
Stan Brock Self Self See fewer	Galyon (1980)
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Danny Dorling Self Self See fewer	Year of the Dog (2022)
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Peter Egan Narration Narration See fewer	The Wedding Date (2005)
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Kim Holt Self Self See fewer	The Great NHS Heist (2019)
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Aislinn Macklin-Doherty Self Self See fewer	ITV Weekend News (1955)
Martin McKee Self Self See fewer	BBC Newsline (1996)
Helen Mercer Self Self See fewer	The Great NHS Heist (2019)
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Christopher Redman Self Self See fewer	The Great NHS Heist (2019)
Lucy Reynolds Actress Actress See fewer	Gallifrey (2004)
Larry Sanders Self Self See fewer	The Great NHS Heist (2019)
Prem Sikka Self Self See fewer	Behind the Crime (2004)
Yanis Varoufakis Self Self See fewer	Adults in the Room (2019)
David Whyte Self Self See fewer	The Great NHS Heist (2019)
Steffie Woolhandler Self Self See fewer	Democracy Now! (2001)