Did you know that the Tories’ adviser on cuts within government, is chairman of the UKs biggest private healthcare firm, which has admitted that it will benefit from job cuts in the NHS?
Sir Peter Gershon, said that the NHS would save “£1bn to £2bn” by curbing recruitment – which estimates say translates into 20,000 to 40,000 jobs.
Sir Peter also chairs General Healthcare Group, the UK’s largest private sector healthcare firm. on their website, a strategy paper states that the NHS will face a “very severe contraction in its finance with an £8-10bn cut in real terms likely in the three years from 2011.”
It continued: “Given this lack of funding growth, there will be an increasing role for the private sector, even if NHS efficiencies can offset some of the budget pressure.”
The real rot of this is that David Cameron neglected to mention Sir Peter’s interests when he presented the efficiency savings report.
It is based on the savings noted in the report that the Conservative felt they could afford to cut back the proposed National Insurance increases.
Reason #6: Cameron’s efficiency savings take money and jobs out of the public sector and into the private.