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So what happened in the middle of last year? An administrator was appointed on 29 May for the Active Care Group, which cares for hundreds of vulnerable patients in the NHS. The financial problems had been going on for months—they can be dated back to the end of 2022—and people within the company were aware of them, but it was only in that month that NHS England finally heard about it. NHS England immediately ordered ACG not to take on any new patients and ordered it to provide daily updates to it on the situation. Eventually, a rescue was carried out, but this is instability that we cannot afford to have. The whole foundation simply does not work if we have a handful of private companies dominating our services, not providing good-quality care and not providing care where it is needed.