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A similar feeling happens when hospitals put their cafés out to tender and the WRVS[1] who had been running the café lose the bid, and a commercial firm wins.

(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/6200817.stm)

This article is baffling - it was written in 2012 but talks about financial pressure in the NHS - and the need to run health care like a business - as something new. (http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/bow-WRVS-girls/story-16...)

And even the WRVS is not immune to this. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-14540603)

[1] WRVS - Woman's Royal Volunteer Service.



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