Simon Stevens NHS Wonk with links to Private Health – Photo The Independent.
‘Stevens was health adviser to both Labour health secretary Alan Milburn and prime minister Tony Blair. He was intimately involved in Blair’s privatisations.
He is the main author of the “NHS Plan” launched in 2000. The plan took NHS-funded operations out of NHS hospitals, handing them over to private companies.
This was a bonanza for health companies and private equity firms behind them. It built a whole industry of firms sucking up NHS cash. Paying their profits wasted NHS cash and resources.
For example, under Stevens’s plan the NHS gave up buying its own MRI scanners. It paid a private company to do the scans from the back of lorries in hospital car parks instead.
A company called Alliance Medical was paid for all the scans in the contract, even though it only did 80 per cent of the work. The Royal College of Radiologists and the NHS Clinical Guardian didn’t trust the quality of the work, so hospitals had to duplicate many of the scans anyway.
The same plan meant the NHS bought hundreds of thousands of minor operations from private clinics called “independent-sector treatment centres” (ISTCs).’ http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-c187-How-the-new-NHS-boss-has-helped-ruin-health-services-on-two-continents#.UnamGhCi1x1 and so forth ….
Stevens Links To Private Health Company - http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/exblair-adviser-simon-stevens-who-is-linked-to-us-healthcare-giant-is-new-nhs-boss-8899875.html
‘The Daily Mirror revealed £60million has gone to waste after the Government made thousands of NHS staff redundant only to rehire them. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/nhs-redundancies-couple-rehired-after-2666039
NHS Management Pockets Pay Rises of 13 Percent While Everyone Else Cuts Back - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10320772/NHS-bosses-pocket-big-rises-amid-cutbacks-figures-show.html
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