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Cambridgeshire's £800m NHS out-sourcing contract ends - A five-year £800m NHS out-sourcing contract ends after eight months

2015-12-12 23:17:51

Cambridgeshire's £800m NHS out-sourcing contract ends - A five-year £800m NHS out-sourcing contract ends after eight months because the company running it failed to achieve what Andrew MacPherson, Managing Director of The NHS Strategic Projects Team that managed the procurement on behalf of the CCG claimed they would ... "invest in and transform services, and develop new ways of working." ... in other words ... "the current arrangement is no longer financially sustainable". So, in just over a year - and in only 8 months of the contract running - "transform services, and develop new ways of working" has become "no longer financially sustainable"? If this sort of business planning and accurate forecasting was seen anywhere else then senior staff would be ... er ... moving on.

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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