19 January, 2011. Plans to radically change the NHS will be presented to Parliament today (19 January) by Health Secretary Andrew Lansley.

Doctors, nurses, unions and MPs have variously described Lansley's reforms as “extraordinarily risky”, “expensive”, “rushed, ill-conceived and potentially disastrous” – “it could be a bloody awful train crash”.
 


Others see reform differently. “A new, exciting era… that will ultimately change, to our benefit, the landscape in which we operate” is the view of one CEO of a private hospital company. He is just one of a largely unseen army of lobbyists pushing Lansley for reforms that will see private health companies making huge profits out of the NHS. 



To get the changes to the NHS they want, companies have been busy employing politicians (including former health ministers), hiring lobbying agencies full of government insiders, and paying think tanks close to the Conservative Party. 



This short film takes you on a tour of the offices of just some of these healthcare companies, agencies and think tanks surrounding Parliament, all of which are lobbying to fundamentally change the NHS in their own interests.