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."
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