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Much of the cost in the NHS is due to creeping privatisation and a mountain of PFI debt that could have been funded for a fraction fo the cost of what it bought
by Jochim 3y ago
Much of the cost in the NHS is due to creeping privatisation and a mountain of PFI debt that could have been funded for a fraction fo the cost of what it bought.
NHS consultants working at their hospital privately. Hiring their own companies.
You're an NHS nurse, your pay has declined drastically in real terms and the job is increasingly stressful due to a staffing shortage. You spend part of each shift teaching a clueless agency nurse, who's costing the NHS 2-4x more than you, how things work.
The government has over the last two decades, gradually shifting more work to private services, despite paying more for less each time they do so.
The people responsible should be in jail.