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The whole point of all these mergers and "efficiency drives" is they have nothing whatsoever to do with being more efficient or improving care for patients, they are there to dismantle the NHS completely, drive through private care, even though private insurers are losing money hand over fist and have stopped funding new hospital projects and patient care. This is policy based on ideology from the 1980's. Jane Hautot is one of many, like myself who remembers local hospitals that were shut during the Thatcher years, South London Hospital for Women & Children was one, another was St James' in Balham, along with the Garrett Anderson, a small cottage hospital my mother spent some time in after a difficult pregnancy with my youngest brother. All gone in the name of "efficiency and offering more patient choice". Sound familiar? It ought to be. This bunch of second hand car dealers are the same as they were then and they're just finishing the job that was started then. When are we going to wake up and protest about it? When we all have to have private health cover or before then????