Will STPs finally wreck the NHS?

Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) are the latest attempt, claim the Tory government, to improve the NHS.  But a more likely outcome is that they will finally wreck what remains of the publically owned NHS. A new report commissioned by London South Bank University1 doesn’t pull its punches in answering the question on whether STPs will improve the NHS and the health service offered to us, the public at large. The background to the report is that in late 2016 the 44 STPs, based on newly defined geographic areas of England, published their STPs setting out how health and care…