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Ministers have begun exploring a sale of the main supplier of temporary staff to the NHS in a move likely to revive political accusations about its creeping privatisation.
Sky News has learnt that the Department of Health (DoH) has appointed Deloitte, the accountancy firm, to review options for NHS Professionals, the state-owned staffing agency.
A formal decision to sell NHS Professionals, which has roughly 40,000 nurses, doctors, midwives and other healthcare workers on its books, has not yet been taken.
However, sources said on Monday that an outright sale of the now-profitable agency was "a very real possibility", with analysts estimating that it could raise between £50m and £100m.
http://news.sky.com/story/1356686/ministers-risk-controversy-with-nhs-sale-plan
Sky News has learnt that the Department of Health (DoH) has appointed Deloitte, the accountancy firm, to review options for NHS Professionals, the state-owned staffing agency.
A formal decision to sell NHS Professionals, which has roughly 40,000 nurses, doctors, midwives and other healthcare workers on its books, has not yet been taken.
However, sources said on Monday that an outright sale of the now-profitable agency was "a very real possibility", with analysts estimating that it could raise between £50m and £100m.
http://news.sky.com/story/1356686/ministers-risk-controversy-with-nhs-sale-plan