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Wednesday, July 26, 2006

In Britain: Unison plans strikes as American firm hired to do all NHS shopping

Unison plans strikes as American firm hired to do all NHS shopping
Source: The Times UK
A GIANT American firm is poised to take over the responsibility for spending more than £4 billion a year of NHS money in the biggest privatisation yet seen in the health service, The Times has learnt.
Novation, the Texas-based group, is in the final stages of negotiating a far-reaching contract that will make it and its German partner, DHL, responsible for buying everything from bandages to hip implants for the health service. The move will mark a massive step towards opening up the NHS to outside companies and is certain to inflame simmering tensions within the Labour Party over what is perceived as creeping privatisation.

 



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