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From: Alex Scott-Samuel [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 13 May 2011 16:16 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [POHG] Fwd: NHS will be shown no mercy Political Scrapbook Cameron health adviser: NHS to be "shown no mercy" in. One of David Cameron's most senior health advisers told a conference of health executives that the NHS will be privatised, advising representatives from healthcare companies of an impending goldrush in the wake of Andrew Lansley's health reforms. Mark Britnell was NHS director general for commissioning and system management before joining the private sector as global head of health at KPMG. He was recently appointed to a new panel of senior health policy experts by David Cameron, attending their first meeting last week. According to the public relations industry monitoring site Spinwatch Britnell did not mince his words on privatisation when addressing a seminar called "Reform Revolution" at a conference for healthcare corporations: "In future, the NHS will be a state insurance provider not a state deliverer." Delegates had been told the conference, run by $20 billion private equity firm Apax Partners, would cover "business opportunities post global healthcare reform." Britnell delivered the good, offering this deliciously off-message sound bite: "The NHS will be shown no mercy and the best time to take advantage of this will be in the next couple of years." Despite their focus on health reform, Cameron's new panel of advisers will not contribute to the announced process in which stakeholders can suggest "improvements" to Andrew Lansley's proposals. As though we needed any more evidence that this "listening exercise" is a sham. http://politicalscrapbook.net/2011/05/mark-brittnell-nhs-shown-no-mercy/ ******************************* Politics of Health Group Mail List Message ******************************* Visit the PoHG website for lots of interesting links and publications: http://www.pohg.org.uk/ ****************************************************** Please note that if you press the 'Reply' button your message will go only to the sender of this message. If you want to reply to the whole list, use your mailer's 'Reply-to-All' button to send your message automatically to [log in to unmask] Disclaimer: The messages sent to this list are the views of the sender and cannot be assumed to be representative of the range of views held by subscribers to the Radical Statistics Group. To find out more about Radical Statistics and its aims and activities and read current and past issues of our newsletter you are invited to visit our web site www.radstats.org.uk. *******************************************************