The NHS will be shown no mercy and the best time to take advantage of this will be in the next couple of years.
Mark Britnell, senior adviser to David Cameron, who's advising that the National Health Service should be charging patients and changing from a healthcare deliverer into a state insurance provider.
In unguarded comments at a conference in New York organised by the private equity company Apax, Britnell claimed that the next two years in the UK would provide a "big opportunity" for the for-profit sector, and that the NHS would ultimately end up as a financier of care similar to an insurance company rather than a provider of hospitals and staff.
The Guardian
The NHS reforms will lead to “short-term pain” but huge long-term opportunities for independent healthcare providers, according to a survey of 20 leading chief executives in the sector... Alistair Stranack, partner at The Parthenon Group’s healthcare practice, said he expects around 50% of the NHS’s £120bn funding will be up for grabs via AQP when the reforms are finally passed.
HealthInvestor.co.uk
Tony Blair explained his priorities in three words: education, education, education. I can do it in three letters: NHS... When your family relies on the NHS all of the time - day after day, night after night - you know how precious it is. So, for me, it is not just a question of saying the NHS is safe in my hands - of course it will be. My family is so often in the hands of the NHS, so I want them to be safe there.
David Cameron, Conservative Party Conference, 2006
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