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NHS may close 10 major hospitals BBC

The government are clearly Maoist believing in continual revolution.

What we have is the symptom of the financial problems in the NHS. It means that it will not be seen as a mechanism for improving services (and unless I review each item in detail I would not be able to comment on the merits), but instead a panic response to a financial crisis.

Too many changes at once.

I had a letter today from some government health minister that denies that they intend subcontracting decisionmaking from PCTs. Why, then, did they remove those words from the tender document before submitting it to OJEC?

Yes I have a copy of the tender document with tracked amendments.

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Bob Piper said…
Because the Secretary of State removed it from the civil servants draft as I understand it.
6:02 pm
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