“Labour” think tank proposes privatisation of clinical services

Private firms could be allowed to extend their role within the NHS to managing clinical services if an experiment proposed by a think tank is given the go-ahead by the government.

A special commission set up by the Institute for Public Policy Research, which has close links with the Labour party, has suggested setting up a pilot scheme in a “large health authority” to see if a hospital run by the private sector could perform better than one run by the …