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Over the past decade, GPs have repeatedly tightened their belts as they’ve seen funding per patient fail to keep pace with inflation 1 In this context it’s galling to hear of the eye watering sums of money spent by our government during this pandemic, with less than transparent tendering processes and results that offer questionable value for money 234 As well as £56m paid to consultancies, the government has spent £150m on faulty, unusable face masks and £11 8m on a track and trace app that doesn’t work 356 The question of how it’s even possible to spend such sums on developing an app has puzzled many people familiar with such work Mounting reports point to poor management of the outsourced contact tracing system, with workers paid to twiddle their thumbs while cases of covid-19 multiply around them 78 It’s hard to see any logic in the way contracts on which people’s lives depend have ended up being awarded to unqualified companies and individuals 910 We have to ask, “Cui bono?” It doesn’t seem to be patients or the public Guardian 2020 Aug 20 https://www theguardian com/world/2020/aug/20/government-spends-56m-on-consultants-to-help-with-coronavirus?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other 4 Wilcock D, Boyd C PPE providers, the firm behind school meal vouchers and the NHS locum medic bank among big winners making millions as Government pays private firms £6 5BILLION during COVID crisis
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