The vested interests behind NHS privatisation

Caroline Molloy, writing on the Open Democracy website, looks at the implications of ex-New Labour Health Minister Alan Milburn's appointment to the health board of PriceWaterhouseCoopers. She identifies a major public policy concern that 'the revolving door between government and the private consultancies gives ample opportunity for political influence by the consultancies private sector clients. These clients include not just private healthcare firms and pharmaceutical companies, but telephone and IT companies, data collectors, private care home congolmerates, insurers and financial brokers'
http://www.opendemocracy.net/ournhs/caroline-molloy/milburn-nhs-and-britains-revolving-door

Good enough for Tesco good enough for the LGPS

Tesco, one of the world's largest retailers, says it will manage its own pension fund - one of the largest final salary schemes in the UK - in order to maximise returns and become independent of consultants. The Financial Services Authority has given the retailer permission to start up Tesco Pension Investment: "We are building a high-calibre in-house team to help manage our growing scheme and reduce dependence on external providers," Lucy Neville-Rolfe, executive director of corporate and legal affairs at Tesco said yesterday: http://www.tescoplc.com/index.asp?pageid=97

Exposed - Public Sector Industrial Complex at work in the NHS

A terrific report in the Mail on Sunday exposes the largesse dispensed by international consultants McKinsey and Co to senior civil servants and NHS regulators overseeing the Con Dem break up of the NHS:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2099940/The-firm-hijacked-NHS-MoS-investigation-reveals-extraordinary-extent-international-management-consultants-role-Lansleys-health-reforms.html