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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Jane Dalton

Senior Tory ‘lobbied head of NHS for company paying him £1,600 a month’

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The chairman of the health select committee lobbied the head of the NHS on behalf of a firm paying him £1,600 a month, it has been reported.

At the height of the Covid pandemic, former health minister Steve Brine said he had been “trying for months” to persuade the NHS to hire anaesthetists through Remedium, a recruitment company he worked for, leaked messages show.

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