Pressure Groups & the NHS
Sunday, December 27, 2009
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As we approach the 2010 General Election, we can expect increasing media exposure of a variety of pressure groups hoping to shape and influence the political debate. A good example of a pressure group which has probably been beneath most people’s radar - until now - is in the Telegraph today. Nurses for Reform, a right-of-centre pressure group, are reported as having had a private meeting with David Cameron. The NHS is touchy subject for the Conservatives, as evidenced by the media storm whipped up by Daniel Hannan’s comments recently. So a meeting with a pressure group advocating full-scale privatisation of the NHS might shake things up again…
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