No body seems to care in government or parliament about the waste that they have made the British public incur over the past years. We have or had a computer system for the NHS that would hold the records of 40 million patients. It cost £12 billion and it has been scrapped even before it was used. Now we have the debacle over the PFI scheme that has incurred costs in the region of £11.4 billion, that is to be paid to private companies who built some of our hospitals. That is now being questioned in some areas as hospitals may have to close wards and cut staff to pay this escalating costs. This bill is estimated to cost the tax payer over £70 billion by the time is is up in 2040, and the public will then own these new hospitals that will be over 25 years old. The increase in cost is due amongst other thing to inflation. We have seen how this has greatly increased some of the MoD's astronomical costs that have in some cases seen contracts terminated Nimrod is a perfect example, would you have thought that these Whitehall mandarins who are supposed to be the elite would have had fixed price contracts to stop runaway inflation costs and make these organisations who benefit from PFI schemes more accountable. But is that to simplistic a thing?
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