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Labour set up the creepily named Co-operation and Competition Panel (CCP), which can force NHS authorities to give money to private firms.
Lansley has supposedly been forced to retreat from his NHS privatisation plans, but he has actually revved-up this Labour privatisation board.
The obscure quango has become one of the Tories' main weapons to hack away at publicly owned hospitals.
At the same time the panel issued a "general review on commissioning," demanding all NHS primary care trusts stop trying to look after NHS hospitals and give more cash to private ones instead.
Some trusts told the panel they thought NHS hospitals were "better value for money."
The panel told them this was no good - they should make decisions "regardless of price."
-- Tories' Circular Logic