Virgin Care’s success highlights fears over role of private companies in NHS and casts doubt on recent assurances by Jeremy HuntRichard Branson’s Virgin Care won a record £1bn of NHS contracts last year,as £3.1bn of health services were privatised despite a government pledge to reduce the proportion of care if by private companies.
Overall, private firms scooped 267 – nearly 70% – of the 386 clinical contracts that were put out to tender in England during 2016-17, and according to a unique report. They included the seven highest value contracts,worth £2.43bn between them, and 13 of the 20 most lucrative tenders.
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Source: guardian.co.uk