NHS European office director Elisabetta Zanon expressed delight that the European Parliament had listened to the concerns of NHS organisations and softened proposals to penalise public bodies for late payment of bills. The European Parliament has voted to significantly soften hard-line proposals that would have required NHS organisations and other public authorities to pay out up to £600m a year in fines for late payments. Under the original EU proposals public sector bodies were the target of highly punitive new penalties if they did not pay bills to private companies within 30 days...
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