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NHS bosses flog off yet another £1 billion
Privateers swoop as Bill protecting service reaches 2nd reading

ENGLAND’S health bosses brazenly snubbed the public yesterday, laying out plans to flog off another £1 billion of the NHS as campaigners gathered for a Westminster vigil against privatisation.

Unions Unite, Unison and GMB joined forces in Parliament Square last night to back the second reading of MP Clive Efford’s anti-privatisation Bill today.

But as they gathered to highlight the plight of England’s NHS news of the latest big sell-off came to light.

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