The NHS, procurement and tax (again)
Thursday, June 19th, 2014Heather Self of Pinsent Masons, solicitors, has sent me the linked note on tax and procurement that her firm has produced. This is in
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Can tax avoiders be stopped from getting NHS contracts?
Thursday, June 19th, 2014I was asked yesterday whether it was possible for a local Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) (the supposedly GP controlled commissioning bodies within the NHS) to
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The NHS is a world beating health service - and a stunningly cost effective health care provider
Tuesday, June 17th, 2014The 2014 update from the US based Commonwealth Fund on its ongoing research into the efficiency and value for money of the world’s leading health
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Pay up Boots
Wednesday, June 11th, 2014Activists from MedAct, Unite the Union, War on Want, and Change to Win are protesting today at the Boots flagship store on Oxford Street. These
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My Queen's speech
Wednesday, June 4th, 2014It’s Queen’s speech day, for the last time in tis Parliament. What will be offered looks like an agenda of desperation focussed mainly on bribing
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I've seen the future of a privatised NHS, and its fraudulent
Monday, June 2nd, 2014The Economist published a story on Saturday on the cost of fraud in the US healthcare system. As they noted: In America the scale of
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The FT gets it wrong ago: accounting for the NHS is not as simple as they think
Monday, June 2nd, 2014The FT is shocked today. It is reporting that: Taxpayers pay up to five times more for National Health Service operations in some hospitals than others, according
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UKIP, tax and the £200 billion hole in its budget for which Farage has to supply answers
Tuesday, May 27th, 2014One of the biggest difficulties in writing about UKIP is knowing what to say. If it’s true that Labour still remains policy light, that the
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This morning's political landscape is a victory for the cowardly state
Friday, May 23rd, 2014Three years ago I wrote a book called the Courageous State. There were those, of course, who predictably thought that a book that suggested the
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