Media Watch: Gordon Brown under fire
Gordon Brown has been coming under fire this week for his behaviour both past and present. The Sun blamed the prime minister for the decision, announced by health secretary Alan Johnson, to scrap six contracts for independent sector treatment centres. The £100m compensation to the dropped companies ‘could have built two children’s hospitals, or hired 4,000 nurses’, it argued. His decision was ‘foolish’, it said, as the ‘NHS needs competition to drive up standards’.
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