£3k Hospital beds 4 Sale - £6 - NHS

Every time Rishi Sunak opens his mouth, he bleats on about his 5 priorities "for the British people". 

One of those five priorities is investment in the NHS. He's forever repeating the lies about more Hospitals, more Nurses, more Doctors, record recruitmen but never about wasted "investments".

During the pandemic, the government claimed it was establishing "Nightingale" Hospitals, designed to treat the most serious cases of Covid, and fully fitted with oxygen availability,

To ensure these facilities were fitted out with the most up to day equipment, the NHS purchased a number of high range beds, at a cost of around £3,000 per unit.

When the hospitals were dismantled, (many without treating a single patient), it was estimated the cost of setting them up to be around £500,000,000.

The "specialist" beds that were purchased were found to be unsuitable for use in other hospital settings, and wer sold off at as little as £6 each. SIX POUNDS for a brand new bed purchased for £3,000.

Some care home managers have said that they were never told of the availability of the beds, and, bearing in mind that the Boris Johnson plan of failed "herd immunity" ("let the bodies pile high"), crowded the elderly into such facilities, they could well have been utilised in a non NHS setting.

With such a huge amount of money being wasted by the Conservative government, we have several questions that need to be asked:

  • Who set up the purchase of these beds?;
  • Who checked the specification against NHS requirements?;
  • Who was the supplier?;
  • Did NHS England say that the beds should be leased, not bought?;
  • Why were the beds not offered to Care Homes?;
  • Who arranged the sale of the beds?;
  • How was the half a billion cost filed within NHS accounts?;
  • What was the relationship between the original suppliers/distributors and the Conservative Party?
In the end days of this zombie government, does the last question need to be asked of EVERY transaction they undertake, using public money?

Who will hold them to account?

UPDATE:

There is now an UPDATE to this Post via the Good Law Project.

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