NHS: Testing the Market

Published: Oct. 14, 2014, 7:50 p.m.

In the biggest outsourcing to date, the NHS in England has announced it is tendering a huge \xa3700 million contract for providing NHS cancer care in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent, along with another \xa3500million for end of life care in the region. Officials say it will streamline services and provide better treatment while critics say it's the most reckless privatisation yet. BBC Health Editor Hugh Pym investigates..\nProducer: Paul Grant.