Purchasing. The wasted millions.
In the wake of the Child B rationing controversy, the Anti-Rationing Group challenged purchasers to allow them to scrutinise their practice. Eight health authorities accepted and, say Colin Roberts and colleagues, the results show public money being needlessly wasted on a staggering scale.
Roberts
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University Hospital of Wales, UK.
Crosby
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D
Grundy
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Lewis
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P
Long
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J
Shellard
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M
Williams
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A
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