Going Private
13 September 2012
The Department of Health's commercial director has few qualms about using the private sector. As he tells Simon Binns, the NHS has to become an innovative buyer of services
The government has found £40 billion in extra funding for the National Health Service. The man who has been charged with reviewing the way some of this money is spent on the private sector is Ken Anderson.
A Texan with British schooling, Anderson was appointed as commercial director at the Department of Health (DoH) last July, and asked to lead a team of 15...