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LABOUR has slammed ministers for handing “failing” outsourcing giant Serco another contract to continue running Covid-19 testing sites.
The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) has signed a new deal with the beleaguered private firm to operate roughly a quarter of testing sites in England and the north of Ireland for another year.
The firm was awarded the contract, worth up to £322 million, despite running into a series of controversies while managing large parts of the national test-and-trace service.
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
Politicians who continue to welcome contracts with US companies without considering the risks and consequences of total dependency in the years to come are undermining the raison d’etre of the NHS, argues Dr JOHN PUNTIS
