Saturday, December 16, 2006

THE BIG RIP-OFF Guardian: "Spending on consultants across the public sector has reached a record £3bn - an increase of over a third in two years - according to the first authoritative investigation into their costs, released today by the National Audit Office. The huge increase is almost entirely caused by the NHS, where spending on consultants has jumped more than 15-fold from £31m to more than £500m in two years - mirroring almost the entire deficit in the hospital and GP services. The NAO says that many of the schemes do not represent value for money and estimates that if proper controls over consultants were introduced the government could save well over £1bn over the next three years." But this is what neocon or new labour policies are all about, siphoning money from the taxpayers to private companies, plundering the public sector. 12:08:54 PM

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