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A history of Privatisation

An occasional series of longer articles for The Lowdown by John Lister

Part 1: The first steps to contracting out support services

Part 2: Community care and the birth of the internal market

Part 3: 30 years of marketisation

Part 4: The early days of PFI (see pages 12-16)
Part 5: The arrival of Tony Blair & NHS Plan 1997-2003

Part 6: NHS money commissions new private hospitals

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