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BBC presenter suspended, NHS & big pharma, and cluster bombs

The News Meeting

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The Importance of Transparency in Healthcare

I'm broadly, I mean, there are going to be relationships between the NHS and these big drug companies. So, I'm not totally convinced that transparency is always used in a way that makes it the answer. It's interesting to know that big pharma pays some staff salaries in the NHS. That was an interesting detail. But it seems to me as though we so long been told to worry about privatization by the back door. What we're witnessing is mass privatization by next door,. i.e. individuals and companies saying you can have private healthcare. You don't need to step into the NHS building, step into this building. And the challenge for the NHS, or you might say

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