Post by kickingfrog on Feb 15, 2012 12:06:08 GMT
The firm that hijacked the NHS
Posted by Lily Paddweller on 14/2/2012,
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The firm that hijacked the NHS: MoS investigation reveals extraordinary extent of international management consultant's role in Lansley's health reforms
McKinsey & Company paid for NHS regulator staff to go to lavish events
Many Health and Social Care Bill proposals drawn up by the company
Document shows it has used access to share information with other clients
McKinsey also worked closely with previous government and on disastrous Railtrack privatisation under John Major
For a busy civil servant, the trip must have felt like a well-earned perk. Last June, David Bennett, the head of NHS regulator Monitor, flew business class to New York, where he stayed at a five-star hotel and attended a lavish banquet, all paid for by McKinsey and Company, the international management consultants.
In total, he would admit later in an official declaration, the two-day freebie was worth ‘approximately’ £6,200.
Mr Bennett may not have broken the law. But as a former McKinsey executive, he should have known he was displaying questionable judgment – because Monitor’s future role, which is being massively expanded by Health Secretary Andrew Lansley’s controversial Health and Social Care Bill, includes regulating health service contracts potentially worth many billions with McKinsey and its clients....
Last night Dr Clare Gerada, the chairwoman of the Royal College of General Practitioners, which along with most other professional medical bodies has called for the Bill to be srubbishped, said that the ‘conflicts of interest’ it creates are among her members’ biggest concerns.
The doctors fear the fact that ‘private companies that have advised the Government on how to dismantle the old system stand to derive commercial benefits from the new one’......
....Last year a McKinsey team led by Mr Henke advised McKesson, the world’s biggest private healthcare provider, when it took over System C, an IT firm working for the NHS.
McKinsey worked closely with the last Labour Government on health, and produced a 2009 report recommending the NHS cut ten per cent of its staff. But within days of the Coalition taking office in 2010, it was seizing opportunities on an unprecedented scale. Its first ‘strategy’ contract with Monitor, worth £330,000, was signed just 48 hours after the Coalition agreement on May 12.
The following week, Mr Lansley’s health department awarded the firm work worth a further £6million for ‘services to the NHS Leadership team’, while a company representative would attend meetings involving members of that team...
By David Rose
Last updated at 11:55 AM on 12th February 2012
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2099940/NHS-health-reforms-Extent-McKinsey--Companys-role-Andrew-Lansleys-proposals.html#ixzz1mLjPedVA
Posted by Lily Paddweller on 14/2/2012,
GF board
The firm that hijacked the NHS: MoS investigation reveals extraordinary extent of international management consultant's role in Lansley's health reforms
McKinsey & Company paid for NHS regulator staff to go to lavish events
Many Health and Social Care Bill proposals drawn up by the company
Document shows it has used access to share information with other clients
McKinsey also worked closely with previous government and on disastrous Railtrack privatisation under John Major
For a busy civil servant, the trip must have felt like a well-earned perk. Last June, David Bennett, the head of NHS regulator Monitor, flew business class to New York, where he stayed at a five-star hotel and attended a lavish banquet, all paid for by McKinsey and Company, the international management consultants.
In total, he would admit later in an official declaration, the two-day freebie was worth ‘approximately’ £6,200.
Mr Bennett may not have broken the law. But as a former McKinsey executive, he should have known he was displaying questionable judgment – because Monitor’s future role, which is being massively expanded by Health Secretary Andrew Lansley’s controversial Health and Social Care Bill, includes regulating health service contracts potentially worth many billions with McKinsey and its clients....
Last night Dr Clare Gerada, the chairwoman of the Royal College of General Practitioners, which along with most other professional medical bodies has called for the Bill to be srubbishped, said that the ‘conflicts of interest’ it creates are among her members’ biggest concerns.
The doctors fear the fact that ‘private companies that have advised the Government on how to dismantle the old system stand to derive commercial benefits from the new one’......
....Last year a McKinsey team led by Mr Henke advised McKesson, the world’s biggest private healthcare provider, when it took over System C, an IT firm working for the NHS.
McKinsey worked closely with the last Labour Government on health, and produced a 2009 report recommending the NHS cut ten per cent of its staff. But within days of the Coalition taking office in 2010, it was seizing opportunities on an unprecedented scale. Its first ‘strategy’ contract with Monitor, worth £330,000, was signed just 48 hours after the Coalition agreement on May 12.
The following week, Mr Lansley’s health department awarded the firm work worth a further £6million for ‘services to the NHS Leadership team’, while a company representative would attend meetings involving members of that team...
By David Rose
Last updated at 11:55 AM on 12th February 2012
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2099940/NHS-health-reforms-Extent-McKinsey--Companys-role-Andrew-Lansleys-proposals.html#ixzz1mLjPedVA