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Last month, David Cameron spent an hour ensconced in a private meeting in his House of Commons office with Dr Helen Evans. Dr Evans is the director of a right-wing libertarian “think tank” called Nurses for Reform, which, according to its website: /"believes that the government should re-cast the NHS as simply a funder of last resort alongside an insurance and self-funder based market. It believes that the state should set free – through a range of full blown for and not-for-profit privatisations – all NHS hospitals and healthcare provision."/ Following the meeting with Cameron, Dr Evans said: /"I had been invited by him to discuss NFR’s ideas on the future of health policy and presented a range of ideas. Amongst others, these included the end of national collective pay bargaining for nurses and doctors, the view that the state should not own or have any of its agents manage hospitals, a world of widespread health advertising (to overcome problems of patient ignorance through trusted brands) and a dramatic liberalisation of hospital planning laws. On this latter point, central government should have no say in when and where any hospital is opened or closed."/ http://www.labourlist.org/nurses-reform-david-cameron-nhs-privatisation-helen-evans?utm_source=taomail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2641+Communication%2C+Fri+8th+Jan+2010&tmtid=26208-2641-6-1-1173 <http://www.labourlist.org/nurses-reform-david-cameron-nhs-privatisation-helen-evans?utm_source=taomail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2641+Communication%2C+Fri+8th+Jan+2010&tmtid=26208-2641-6-1-1173>