Since this issue has been so much in the news, and since those who are defending the NHS against intrusions from the private sector are all over the media at the moment, I thought I would return to a post I wrote when the White Paper came out last July.
The White Paper was published on July 12th and by chance I was talking to NHS partners the next day. This had been in my diary for some time, but the juxtaposition of the White Paper publication and that talk meant that the audience only wanted to talk about one thing – the consequences for their business relationship with the NHS that the White Paper would deliver.
