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Private Sector (NHS)

The hospice movement might be a private sector provider, but would my hon. Friend agree that we should consider with care the perversity that a private sector provider such as that mentioned by my hon. Friend the Member for North Durham (Mr. Jones) is getting money for old rope—although I would not, of course, use such an expression—whereas a hospice such as Treetops in my 19 Oct 2005 : Column 286WH constituency, which gets no funding from the NHS, loses out despite the fact that many think that its services should be funded through the NHS?