Information sources for SONIK’s ‘WE NEED MORE GPs” petition postcard

“The Chancellor Rishi Sunak wasted £83 BILLION* of public money so we pay for poor decisions by government ministers.”

SOURCE: This article by Prem Sikka mentions numerous instances of waste of very large sums of public money in recent years by the current government. We have added the £37bn of the Covid-related financial support lost to fraudsters; the Fake firms who secured personal protection equipment (PPE) contracts (£9bn) and the £37bn squandered on the Covid Test and Trace programme which failed to meet its objectives, to arrive at a (very low) estimate of £83 billion.


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“The number of GPs in Thanet has dropped by 37% in the last few years, from 81 to 51 currently. It is projected that it could drop to just 37 GPs in the next few years as GPs leave the NHS – that would mean a shocking 54% decrease in GPs serving the Isle of Thanet.”

SOURCE: Northdown Surgery Patient Participation Group Agenda, 20th April 2022.


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