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Simon Stevens: scrapping competition isn't 'permissable'

16 September 2014

Simon Stevens has responded to Labour’s calls for an ‘immediate halt’ to further privatisation of the NHS competitive contracting must be run to comply with 2006 European procurement legislation.

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