Rebecca Ryder Profile picture
Tea-fuelled writer, campaigner, filmmaker and fundraiser. 🇬🇧 New novel - Coming Soon
Mar 13 9 tweets 2 min read
NHS hospital: I noticed the clock on the wall showed the wrong time.

A nurse told me they knew, but they wouldn’t report it because replacing the battery through the NHS would cost £70.

A £2 battery... £70. How? Why?

That's when I began to dig further.
🧵 It’s no secret private companies sell things to the NHS, but the scale of the money being made from the most basic items is unbelievable.

Not just the NHS either, but almost every public service. The police, civil service, social services etc etc...