It gets worse. The NHS, otherwise known as tax payers, is even giving £billions to private health businesses for, it seems, virtually nothing.
https://unherd.com/thepost/the-nhs-c...re-never-used/
This was what caught my eye…
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Estimates vary as to the cost of these contracts, but costs are believed to be in the region of £2 billion to £5 billion. For this money, the NHS paid for 100% of the capacity of private providers and received an additional 8,000 beds, 680 operating theatres, 10,000 nurses and over 700 doctors.
Permission was given to private providers to gain further revenue by treating private patients if the capacity purchased by the NHS was not used. These contracts acted to give private hospitals a guaranteed revenue stream for periods during the pandemic.”