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LABOUR criticised the government for paying social media “influencers” to promote the Covid-19 test and trace system and for putting community health contracts out to tender with private firms.
In the Commons, shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth called on his government counterpart Matt Hancock to pause the competitive tendering of contracts until at least the end of the coronavirus pandemic.
He urged him to invest the money in local health schemes instead, such as those seen in Leicester, where door-to-door Covid-19 testing took place under localised lockdown.
Years of underfunding are eroding Scotland’s local services and deepening inequality in communities, says VINCE MILLS
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
In the second part of a two-part article, CONOR BOLLINS asks why the government’s ambition when it comes to the military is not applied to sectors where it could do real good