The NHS must surely share Richard Branson’s pain | Letters

Money that could be spent on people’s real needs is not being spent on those needs, in Wirral as in the Virgin Islands, says Kevin Donovan, while Ray Jones wonders about Camilla Cavendish’s approach to social work

Richard Branson reveals how an incredibly kind man was conned out of $2m which could have gone to the people of the British Virgin Islands (Report, 18 October). Here in Wirral we share Branson’s pain. Every year our incredibly kind clinical commissioning group gives £2m to a private partnership. It’s money which could have gone to the people’s NHS. The partnership comprises 20 GPs. And a 21st partner, a company owned by someone living in the BVI.

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