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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Denis Campbell Health policy editor

Tony Blair urges expanded role for private sector as NHS turns 75

Tony Blair
Tony Blair: ‘As in the 1990s, the NHS must either change or decline.’ Photograph: Daniel Leal/AFP/Getty Images

The NHS must undergo radical change or it will continue to decline and lose public support, Tony Blair has argued on the service’s 75th anniversary.

It must embrace a revolution in technology to reshape its relationship with patients and make much more use of private healthcare providers to cut waiting times, the former Labour prime minister says.

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