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    The NHS rip off partnership is interesting as well as the SS BNP link Archived Message

    Posted by CJ on July 29, 2019, 1:12 pm, in reply to "Shafting overseas students at UK universities"

    "NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) is a joint venture between Steria and the United Kingdom's Department of Health. It provides services in finance and accounting; payroll and human relations; family health services; and commercial procurement.

    NHS SBS employs over 1,400 people, recovers more than £12 billion of debt, pays 200,000 NHS employees and processes £36 billion of payments per annum for its NHS clients. It works with over 40% of NHS organisations to deliver operational efficiencies, cost savings and improved service quality, and is on target to deliver £250 million of cost savings to NHS trusts and organisations.[30]

    In May 2018, UK's Minister of State for Immigration, Caroline Nokes, announced significant changes to the visa application submission process. In her statement, she announced the government would be outsourcing the immigration application process to Sopra Steria Group by October 2018.,[31][32]

    Controversy: In the UK The National Audit Office found that SBS first recognised in January 2014 that patients may have come to harm as a result of what was at the time a fast-rising backlog of undelivered paperwork but despite staff raising concerns, the firm did not alert the department or NHS England until March 2016 - a delay of 26 months. The NAO concluded that SBS was then “obstructive and unhelpful” with regards to the subsequent inquiry launched by NHS England.[33] In 2017 a UK Commons public accounts committee were told that at least 12,000 missing papers - which could include patient records and cancer tests had not been processed by SBS,[34][35][36] "

    "1969 – Creation of Steria. SODERI (Information Research and Development Company) holds 51%, the BNP Group holds 29.5% and the Indochina Group holds 19.5%. The company holds its headquarters in the BNP offices."

    Another banking based rip off operation imo - this time based in France - which I believe is in the EU! I assume Boris will want to cut this partnership in view of its French link! Quickly followed by the water rail and electricity links to France.


    cheers

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