{"id":9955,"date":"2011-05-10T11:29:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T10:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=9955"},"modified":"2011-05-10T11:29:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T10:29:41","slug":"make-no-mistake-the-tory-plan-is-privatisation-of-the-nhs-driven-by-kpmg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/05\/10\/make-no-mistake-the-tory-plan-is-privatisation-of-the-nhs-driven-by-kpmg\/","title":{"rendered":"Make no mistake – the Tory plan is privatisation of the NHS – driven by KPMG"},"content":{"rendered":"

This blog from SpinWatch <\/a>is so importsant it needs quoting at length:<\/p>\n

GPs won't have to turn to the private sector' to help with commissioning health services, said Andrew Lansley today in the Commons,\u00a0trying to fend off accusations that the Tories are privatising the NHS with their reforms.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe House knows my commitment to the NHS,\" he continued. \u201cI haven\u2019t spent seven and a half years as shadow secretary and secretary of state to see the NHS undermined, or fragmented or privatised... That was never my intention. It is not my intention.\u201d<\/p>\n

Privatisation was \u2018never his intention\u2019? Someone should tell that to Mark Britnell, a former high-flyer in the Department of Health, now global head of health at KPMG, and\u00a0recent appointee to David Cameron\u2019s \u201ckitchen cabinet\u201d of health experts<\/a> to advise on health service reform.<\/p>\n

Just six months ago, Britnell\u00a0told a conference of private healthcare executives<\/a>: \u201cIn future, the NHS will be a state insurance provider not a state deliverer.\u201d<\/p>\n

In case there was any ambiguity in that, Britnell explained to conference delegates (in a session called 'Reform Revolution'):<\/p>\n

\u201cThe NHS will be shown no mercy and the best time to take advantage of this will be in the next couple of years.\"<\/p>\n

How could Britnell, who made it into the top ten of the \u2018100 most influential people in health<\/a> \u2019 last year - as well as into No.10 - have got Lansley so wrong?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course he hasn't got Lansley wrong.<\/p>\n

And I can be unambiguous:\u00a0Cameron\u00a0knew what he was doing in appointing this man.<\/p>\n

It is glaringly obvious that GP consortia cannot and will not run the NHS.<\/p>\n

It is glaringly obvious that Lansley has set out to destro the existing\u00a0infrastructure\u00a0of the NHS - and is\u00a0succeeding\u00a0in doing so.<\/p>\n

And there is only one explanation - and that is that they want to privatise the NHS.<\/p>\n

And in the process they will introduce health care rationing. That's the logic of their plan for\u00a0individual\u00a0health care budgets - some of which are already being introduced. These allocate an allotted sum to a person for care....but no one has yet said what happens when that budget runs out.<\/p>\n

When people die\u00a0because\u00a0the NHS won't provide for them - then \u00a0people might\u00a0realise\u00a0what the Tories are doing. And it will take a strong\u00a0government, a\u00a0government\u00a0committed to nationalising in the\u00a0public\u00a0interest to take back into the public domain what should never be allowed to\u00a0leave\u00a0it - that will have to correct this damage.<\/p>\n

And that will have to be a\u00a0government\u00a0far removed from the New Labour model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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