More proof that the Tories and their Lib Dem enablers are ideologically driven to privatise the health service. As Tom Pride himself points out, this has absolutely nothing to do with cost or value for money. It is simply about exploiting the treatment of the sick and disabled as a ‘revenue stream’ to gain massive profits.
(not satire – it’s the coalition government!)
The government has awarded an £80 million NHS contract to a private firm despite the company charging taxpayers £7 million more than an NHS consortium bidding against it:
Stoke NHS hospital scanning contract won by private firm
More proof – if any more were needed – that the Lib Dem/Tory government’s mad dash to privatise eveything in its sights is a purely political aganda and nothing to do with saving taxpayers money.
The government – of course – have not said why the private firm won the contract despite its bid being more expensive.
That’s because the bidding process was – of course – secret:
“This whole process has been shrouded in secrecy. We don’t even know who – expert adviser or public representative – were on the panel.”
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