Yes and no. Like after #GE1997, the private sector has been used to reduce waiting lists. So low risk patients are being thrown to private providers, but the treatment is funded by the #NHS.

Tony Blair Institute for Global Change on X: "Tony Blair: Jeremy Corbyn's comments that inequality & social mobility have been ignored for decades are the latest charge in what is now a mantra: that the Thatcher, Labour & current Govts are all the same. This is bad politics & worse history. Time to set the record straight👇 https://t.co/6H1qdZLp7k" / X Tony Blair: Jeremy Corbyn's comments that inequality & social mobility have been ignored for decades are the latest charge in what is now a mantra: that the Thatcher, Labour & current Govts are all the same. This is bad politics & worse history. Time to set the record straight👇 https://t.co/6H1qdZLp7k

You need to listen to #TonyBlair on how things got better between #GE1997 and #GE2010 x.com/institutegc/...

#NHS waiting lists coming down between #GE1997 & #GE2010. Do you consider that short term benefits for long term damage?

#JohnMajor took over at the end of the 3rd term and won #GE1992, the last of 4 successive victories, then Labour were back in with a landslide at #GE1997, the first of 2 landslides and in total 3 defeats, for most of first decade of that govt people talked of the end of Cons Party.