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And yet, previous sales of similar 'suites of services' have resulted in private companies pulling out after falling standards in a bid to create profit-see Hitchingbrook and Circle:
https://www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/caroline-molloy/hinchingbrooke-why-did-england's-privatised-hospital-deal-really-collapse
Seems to be pretty wide consensus that chipping services off and offering them out to tender is privatisation via the backdoor, and consistently results in poorer standards?