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Health campaigners condemn government plans to hand NHS cash to private sector

HEALTH campaigners condemned the handing of yet more NHS cash to private-sector profiteers today, in what’s being billed as the government’s latest attempt to tackle record waiting lists.

Taxpayers are to fund 13 new community-based centres to diagnose patients.

But eight of the centres are set to be run by private companies paid to give treatments.

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