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Here's an anecdote. My best mate is a GP in Tower Hamlets. A few years back (under Labour) one of the neighboring surgeries had been very badly run and had to taken over. His surgery bid for it as did a private company. It was obvious throughout that the process was rigged and, sure enough, the private company got the contract. However my friend's surgery was entitled to ask the man who made this decision to come in and explain it. Which he did, with an advisor in tow. At one point they asked him if, nationally, when there had been tenders from NHS practices and private companies if an NHS tender had ever won. The bloke turned to his advisor and asked if he had to answer the question. He was told he did. The answer, of course, was no.
What does this show? That privatisation has been going on for a while, that it is rigged. Oh and that it is a scam; the practice that was taken over by the private company has now failed again because the bid was so low that, surprise surprise, they found they could not run it on that money.
And if anyone thinks the money goes on salaries; my mate works at least 50 hours a week (though he is nominally 3 1/2 days a week) in the poorest catchment area in England and earns a lot less than any moderately experienced graphic designer or IT specialist on the forum.