NHS
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Reckless Procurement Revealed in Explosive Court Case
On Tuesday, the same day that the National Audit Office finds that the Government lacked detailed contingency plans for a pandemic, the High Court started hearing a case against Matt Hancock. It is the Good Law Project and EveryDoctor that have challenged the Health Secretary over the Government’s unlawful procurement of PPE contracts. The previous…
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Government Breaks NHS Promise
Time and time again during the election campaign of 2019 the Conservative Party assured us that the NHS is not for sale. In March 2020, when the UK started trade negotiations with the US, Prime Minister Johnson declared that the NHS was not on the table. Yet less than a year later American owned Operose…
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For Everybody to See
“The contracts are there on record for everybody to see,” said the Prime Minister. Except for the 100 he’d forgotten about. 19 February 2021The High Court rules that the Health Secretary acted unlawfully by not publishing contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds. 22 February 2021The Prime Minister assured us that all was there to…
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Questionable Answers
At Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday Sir Keir Starmer asked Boris Johnson: “If he so determined to cut NHS pay, will he at least show some courage and put it to a vote in this Parliament?” Mr Johnson replied: “The last time that we put this to a vote, the right hon. and learned Gentleman voted…