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Worth noting that Purple Medical's Chief Exec boasted elsewhere: "We are a long-term partner of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) as well as the NHS. Purple Surgical

So, we own something called the British Business Bank. And through British Business Bank we own British Patient Capital. And British Patient Capital invested $65m in the for-profit SV Health

Boris Johnson has just talked about a massive expansion of rapid result home testing kits which seem to be the saliva tests made by Innova.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/28/10-of-englands-population-could-be-tested-for-covid-19-

We need to talk about isolation suits - also known as "coveralls". THREAD Experimental data shows that during the pandemic we have used 533,000 coveralls using the emergency procurement procedure

I gave an interview to German telly the other day. They couldn't understand why (most of) our media was ignoring what looked for all the world like powerful prima face

One of the contracts that Government finally published last week was this £168.5m contract with tiny pest control specialist Pestfix for three different types of facemasks. https://atamis-1928.cloudforce.com/sfc/p/#0O000000rwim/a/4J000000k

Back in April, the Government appointed ex Goldman Sachs banker Lord Deighton as "PPE Tsar".https://www.gov.uk/government/news/olympics-chief-brought-in-to-boost-ppe-production Earlier this month, Government stated that on 20 Apri

You may remember Crisp Websites Limited, trading as Pestfix, the company with last reported net assets of £18,047. THREAD And you may remember that, notwithstanding that Pestfix had substantially no

Yesterday I set out how relationships with political figures in Government could be leveraged by suppliers to achieve supernormal profits.https://twitter.com/JolyonMaugham/status/1315918126865883136 At the moment I am still focusing on appa

Yesterday I showed how, on Govt's own figures, it overpaid a politically connected PPE supplier by £36m+ for IIR facemasks. In fact, if you look at the contract as a

Last night, I said that I was aware of evidence DHSC had been paying higher prices for PPE to connected suppliers. And that I was working to put that evidence

The effect of making it impossible for transgender kids to access regulated wrap-around healthcare in the UK was to drive them and their families to piece together bits and pieces