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Money spent on PPE and test and trace programme “eye-watering”


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Christopher Snowdon quoted in The Daily Telegraph

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Christopher Snowdon quoted by The Daily Telegraph

The £25bn spent by the government so far on PPE and the test and tracing system is an “eye-watering sum of money, equivalent to 15% of the entire NHS budget.”

Quoted in The Daily Telegraph, Chris added “a global shortage made it inevitable that we would pay over the odds for PPE, especially since the NHS is not known for driving a hard bargain.”

You can find the full article on pg7 of The Daily Telegraph.



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