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Saturday, November 21, 2009 3:18 PM

Published 11/03/2009 by Times Online


Tory plan to save millions with the NHS

David Rose, Health Correspondent, and Sam Coates

David Cameron promised yesterday to cut the cost of running the NHS by a third while handing day-to-day management of the health service over to an independent body.

The Tory leader guaranteed that up to £1.5 billion of savings...

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