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NHS - should we be worried now?

Capita wins £1bn NHS contract to oversee administration
https://www.ft.com/content/408bcd74-18bb-11e5-8201-cbdb03d71480?fbclid=IwAR3EesMYfpGjRtyAJMbvG3Z2TSXp3Lt1XtD3U-MnQqmR28ZQc0OcptCgxNw

Ivonne Holliday ● 2065d3 Comments

Good morning Michael, I must apologize to you and everyone in the Forum for having posted the FT article without double checking properly.  I am truly sorry. I received the article on FB and was able to open the link with no problem.  But did not check the date....  Tut tut tut!! I Googled the title of the article a few minutes ago and, in addition to the FT article, I saw this http://www.hdlynz.com/?p=4287606.  It is a non-secure website but it gives a link to the FT article of June 2015!  It is in fact the article I read last night. There are other links to twitter accounts and this one https://www.cityam.com/capita-awarded-nhs-england-admin-contract-worth-1bn/ My apologies again!

Ivonne Holliday ● 2064d

Yes, because one can't trust this government. However, articles is behind paywall so can't see the details..

Michael Ixer ● 2065d

And yet we're consistently assured that "the NHS is not for sale." It's actions like letting this contract with Capita (which Private Eye refers to, with reason, as Crapita) that give the lie to this "assurance" - and that's even before a deal has been negotiated (conceded) with Trump's greedy asset-stripping cohorts.

Richard Carter ● 2065d