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The biggest chunk of NHS care yet is to be bought from a private provider, in a contract worth up to ?1.1 billion.
The contract, which will include end-of-life care for the elderly, is being offered by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough clinical commissioning group (CCG), one of the more than 200 GP-led bodies which buy services for their local patients.
It is worth between ?140m and ?160m per year for five years, with a two-year extension option, and will replace six separate contracts the CCG already has with NHS providers.
Andy Burnham, the shadow health secretary, told The Guardian: "One year to the day that Danny Boyle famously celebrated before the eyes of the world an NHS that puts people before profits, we find a government stealthily breaking it up and selling it off.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...act-offered-to-private-providers-8734721.html
The contract, which will include end-of-life care for the elderly, is being offered by Cambridgeshire and Peterborough clinical commissioning group (CCG), one of the more than 200 GP-led bodies which buy services for their local patients.
It is worth between ?140m and ?160m per year for five years, with a two-year extension option, and will replace six separate contracts the CCG already has with NHS providers.
Andy Burnham, the shadow health secretary, told The Guardian: "One year to the day that Danny Boyle famously celebrated before the eyes of the world an NHS that puts people before profits, we find a government stealthily breaking it up and selling it off.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...act-offered-to-private-providers-8734721.html