Do watch the video!
David Miller spoke at our last year's conference.
Is it possible for this short video to be looked at this year at the
conference?
Janet Shapiro
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From: The Health Equity Network (HEN)
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Miller
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 3:04 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Lobbying, Lansley and the NHS
In case anyone on this list is interested:
See also the Powerbase Health Portal for a Google Maps guide to health
lobbying: http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Health_Portal
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From: "Tamasin Cave" <[log in to unmask]>
To: Transparency <[log in to unmask]>
Cc:
Subject: [Transparency] Take a tour of Lansley's private healthcare
supporters
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:53:30 -0000
Hi,
SpinWatch has made a film about lobbying by the private health industry for
reform of the NHS, to coincide with Andrew Lansley's presentation of his
plans to Parliament today. The film is a tour of some of the companies,
lobbying agencies and think tanks involved and hopefully helps to shift the
debate from being about 'patient choice / power to GPs' (the government
line), to the key story which is one of massive privatisation.
Please forward and post (link here and below:
http://www.spinwatch.org/blogs-mainmenu-29/tamasin-cave-mainmenu-107/5417-ta
ke-a-tour-of-lansleys-private-healthcare-supporters)
Tamasin
Take a tour of Lansley's private healthcare supporters
http://www.spinwatch.org/blogs-mainmenu-29/tamasin-cave-mainmenu-107/5417-ta
ke-a-tour-of-lansleys-private-healthcare-supporters
Plans to radically change the NHS are being presented to Parliament today
(19 January) by Health Secretary Andrew Lansley.
Doctors, nurses, unions and MPs have variously described Lansley's reforms
as "extraordinarily risky", "expensive", "rushed, ill-conceived and
potentially disastrous" - "it could be a bloody awful train crash".
Others see reform differently. "A new, exciting era. that will ultimately
change, to our benefit, the landscape in which we operate" is the view of
one CEO of a private hospital company. He is just one of a largely unseen
army of lobbyists pushing Lansley for reforms that will see private health
companies making huge profits out of the NHS.
To get the changes to the NHS they want, companies have been busy employing
politicians (including former health ministers), hiring lobbying agencies
full of government insiders, and paying think tanks close to the
Conservative Party.
This short film takes you on a tour of the offices of just some of these
healthcare companies, agencies and think tanks surrounding Parliament, all
of which are lobbying to fundamentally change the NHS in their own
interests.
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