Karen Jennings, UNISON Head of Health said:
“Despite repeated requests we still have not seen the business case for transferring NHS Logistics to parcel company DHL, because of so called”commercial confidentiality”.
“The Government is running a huge risk by forging ahead with this
contract given the under-performance of the private sector in the NHS.
” We have no confidence in the Government’s ability to negotiate such a huge contract given their recent track record in the NHS. Look at the overspend on computer systems which is running into billions overspend or the guaranteed funding to private sector treatment centres for operations they haven’t even carried out.
“DHL will be a monopoly supplier and already we have a lack of openness in this contract. The private sector ethos is surrounded in commercial confidentiality which is goes against the open book policy of the public sector, which is always accountable to the public.”
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