European official commits to safeguarding NHS in EU-US trade deal European commission negotiator allays fears about impact of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership on the NHS. Campaigners for a new EU-US trade deal, which could add an extra £4bn a year to the UK economy, have been given a boost after an undertaking from Europes lead negotiator that US healthcare companies will not be allowed to run NHS services. Amid trade union fears that the proposed deal could act as a cover to privatise the NHS, the main European commission negotiator has said that the NHS would be fully safeguarded. Ignacio Garcia Bercero, director of the USA and Canada division in the European commission, made the commitment in a letter to the former Labour shadow health secretary John Healey who is chairman of the all-party group on the trade deal. It is known as TTIP – the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. theguardian/society/2014/jul/11/nhs-safeguarded-european-commission-eu-us-trade-deal
Posted on: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 08:31:22 +0000
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