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A nefarious NHS agenda

GOVERNMENT efforts to play down the proportion of NHS contracts in England snapped up by the private sector are disingenuous and intended to mask its nefarious agenda.

But for British Medical Journal (BMJ) determination to use freedom of information legislation to expose reality, the public would still be in the dark.

The government is content to collude with the private sector and to hide behind the veil of corporate confidentiality to obscure the scale of its depletion of the public purse.

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