“… Another document in the National Archives outlines radical plans to end universal free healthcare.
The document stamped “secret” was called, in keeping with films and books of that era, “The Omega Project”.
Civil servants noted that “for the majority it would represent the abolition of the NHS”.
But in spite of what was described as the nearest thing to a Cabinet riot in the history of the Thatcher administration, the prime minister secretly pressed ahead with the plans – before later backing down”.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38101020
The choice of name is chilling – Omega being the last letter of the Greek alphabet, Alpha being the first. So the phrase ‘Alpha and Omega’ came to mean ‘the beginning and THE END’.
It appears that it has been resurrected.
East Devon Watch 
I’d say that Omega was initiated, even if not in full. I was working in the UK health arena during the Thatcher reign and have always said that the mess with the NHS started then. Reorganisation and restructuring, wasting money on managers and so on. It has just continued under every government since. It took until 2012 for the final nail to be bashed in – the Health and Social Care Act. And most people have still not realised the NHS as we knew it is gone. Unless we can motivate enough people to be angry and force its reinstatement next February we are all in a lot of trouble (unless we are rich torys of course)
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Whilst I think we should indeed try hard to get the NHS Reinstatement Bill passed, being realistic about it this seems unlikely – the Tories will have a 3-line whip to defeat it.
They will simply deny what Allyson Pollock is saying, in the same way that they are denying that there is a crisis in NHS or Social Care, denying that there is under funding (despite Kings Fund, NAO and UK Statistics Authority all saying otherwise), denying that there is a privatisation agenda, and denying that Brexit will have negative economic consequences (again despite NAO, OBR etc. saying otherwise).
I have become convinced that the Tories have an underlying agenda that they are not disclosing, and it is hard if not impossible to fight their plans because we cannot undermine a policy that they deny exists.
That is not, of course, to say that we shouldn’t fight hard to get the NHS Reinstatement Bill passed, but we should not put all our campaigning eggs in the one basket.
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