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Government urged to requisition private hospital beds to cope with coronavirus impact
15.03.2020 - 00:31 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Private hospital beds should be taken over by the state to cope with the impact of coronavirus Labour and a major trade union said.
The GMB union and shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth called for the Government to requisition beds in "plush private hospitals" to ease the burden on the NHS.
Mr Ashworth said it would be "completely wrong" for Boris Johnson not to use all the resources available to tackle the crisis.
The GMB said there are at least 570 private hospitals in the UK with
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