Author: Billy Briggs in The Ferret
| Private firms supplying medical staff to NHS Scotland have made millions of pounds of profit and paid some directors up to £800,000 as the health service struggles, we can reveal. |
| An investigation by The Ferret also found some recruitment agencies are owned in tax havens and that millions of pounds have been paid out in dividends to shareholders. |
| Due to staffing shortages nurses have reportedly been offered £2000 a shiftby agencies supplying NHS Scotland. |
| We Own It – a public ownership campaign group – said it was “disgraceful” that private firms are “profiting from pain” while Scottish Labour said The Ferret’s revelations were “deeply worrying”. |
The full story is on The Ferret website |
Profiting from human rights abuses in mental health too.