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'Cut private sector' out of NHS

Listeners to the Today programme have been asked to suggest how the NHS could save money. In one email, The British Medical Association (BMA) has suggested cutting the private sector out of the system and abolishing market-based reforms. Hamish Meldrum, of the BMA, and Susan Anderson, of employers' organisation the CBI, discuss how much could be saved if these ideas were implemented.

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