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Why Labour is preparing for war with NHS chiefs

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Alan Milburn was the most radical of Sir Tony Blair ’s health secretaries.

He embraced private healthcare providers, using NHS funds to send NHS patients to private hospitals.

His reforms were watered down by his Labour successors and then superseded by the reforms of Andrew (now Lord) Lansley , the first health secretary of the Cameron years .

Streeting-Milburn plan is being drawn up by health service officials who believe in NHS having a monopoly.

There have already been mutterings from the Left about another Streeting appointment Paul Corrigan , who was a special adviser to Milburn when he was health secretary.

Corrigan was credited with coming up with the idea of foundation trusts.