Alastair Stewart: Let me set the record straight on living with dementia

Alastair Stewart: Let me set the record straight on living with dementia

I recently benefited from an example of the NHS working hand in glove with the private sector really well. Sadly that is not always the case. When Tony Blair swallowed his pride and asked BUPA and other private health providers to help him cut waiting lists, I was the interviewer who the then Health Secretary Alan Milburn said New Labour’s relationship with private medicine wasn’t a ‘one-night stand’.It has always made good sense from an economi…