Know Your Enemy

"As an example of what I could bring to the company I would like to propose a new corporate motto: 'Care UK - Providing less, for more'. These words came to me when I was thinking about Manchester, where last year the NHS paid you £2.7 million for work that was never done at your Clinical Assessment and Treatment Centre. According to a parliamentary report, the services you provide up there are between 7 percent and 12 percent more expensive than equivalent services in local hospitals. Providing less for more - it's a record that really ought to be publicised."

When private healthcare company Care UK contacted Alex Nunns to offer him a job, it seems they weren't aware he was formerly information officer for Keep Our NHS Public. Here's his reply.

On another health-related note, Newsnight invited cardiologist Aseem Malhotra to give his views on the identities of some of the Olympics sponsors - needless to say, he declared the involvement of Coca-Cola and McDonald's, amongst others, as "obscene". The companies named have taken the opportunity to fight back with counter-argument and puffery about their support for schemes endorsing active lifestyles - except, that is, for Cadbury, whose curt statement sniffily points to tradition and implies that anyone firing such criticism at a British business manufacturing products for a British Games must be unpatriotic. Fine, except that Cadbury are now very much part of the Kraft "family"...

(Thanks to Dave for the first link.)