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Originally Posted by Osem
So complying with all the 'paperwork' meant that a £4000 bed wound up costing the NHS nearly 10 times that not to mention the time/cost of the whole process!
Surely, when the cost of hiring is such a large proportion of the purchase price it has to be better and much cheaper to just go out and buy the item. If the point of producing/authorising the reports is to save money, surely someone needs to make an initial judgement as to the value of so doing in cases such as this. It doesn't take a mathematician to see that the time taken to do the paperwork etc. will far outweigh the full cost of the items concerned in no time at all. It's maddening!
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These things have to be logged in depth with tons of paperwork to ensure that people like you can bitch about them I'm afraid.
The worse a public service appears to be the better an argument can be made to increase the involvement of the private sector, and all those Tory ministers and MPs with fairly close connections to those seeking to profit from the NHS can make a few quid and/or win some favours.