Tories say Labour wasted £300m on using private providers
The Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has told the Observer that the NHS could have carried out work more efficiently than private providers.
Don’t go to market
BMA Chairman Hamish Meldrum writes about market reforms in the New Statesman.
Is Andrew Lansley’s brutal surgery really needed?
…asks Denis Campbell in the Observer.
Relax – these ‘new’ policies don’t spell the end of the NHS
The health white paper may mean a bigger role for the private sector, but not the end of the NHS, speculates Jeremy Laurance in the Independent.
Private firms scent big opportunity in NHS plans
“The US private health giant Humana is ready to cash in on government plans to open up the NHS to more private sector involvement,” reports the Guardian.
