Medical Experiments

Since everything has gone so well with Twizzler Lansley's anti-NHS bill, Britain's Head Boy has decided that it's time for us all to bustle on to the next phase of privatisation so that NHS patients can do something useful instead of lying around in bed all day. Daveybloke wants the NHS to give private firms access to patient records, apparently on the grounds that it'll be cheaper than buying actual guinea-pigs; and amid all those famous efficiency savings, mirabile dictu, a hundred and eighty million has somehow been discovered to invest in demolishing patient confidentiality until Big Pharma feels confident enough to scoff up the juicy bits. The New New Labour apparatchik Randy Burnham, whose ideas about confidentiality are understandably somewhat limited after his unfortunate indiscretion some years ago, said for Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition that he was not opposed, but that he was "worried about the commercialisation of the NHS" now that he wasn't a member of the government that was doing it.

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