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Apr 2023
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Have we been conned by consultants?

NEW ECONOMICS FOUNDATION
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Nurses struggling without PPE, the frantic search for hospital ventilators, even the dreaded ping from NHS test-and-trace. To most of us, these memories represent some of the worst of the Covid pandemic. But for a select few companies, they were an opportunity to make millions. Consultancy firms won over seven hundred million pounds worth of government Covi ... Show More
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