THE SNP in 2014 were “right” to be concerned about Tory intentions to privatise the NHS – despite Gordon Brown claiming it was “baseless scaremongering”, the First Minister has said.
It comes after the former Labour prime minister warned that the Conservatives were looking to bring in a more privately funded healthcare system, saying: “Mark my words: this will be [the] end of the NHS if the Tories have their way.”
Brown hit out at former health secretary Sajid Javid’s proposals to see people charged £20 for GP appointments and £66 for visits to A&E. Javid wrote in the Times that the NHS needed to extend "the contributory principle".
