‘Stunning waste’: NHS is spending £1m every week on personal ambulances for emergencies, union says
The NHS has been accused of "shocking waste" after analysis by a commerce union discovered it was spending greater than £1m every week on personal ambulances for emergency calls.Unison - whose members have simply accepted a brand new authorities pay deal - says it had responses from two-thirds of ambulance trusts in England that paid personal firms to offer emergency cowl for essential sufferers.
It mentioned greater than a dozen personal firms have been utilized by trusts in England to try to plug holes and meet response instances amid what it known as overwhelming demand.
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