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Why selling healthcare isn't like selling underwear

The last thing the NHS needs is another supermarket-man selling 'market' solutions.

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Former Marks & Spencer Sir Stuart Rose, hired by Cameron to advise the NHS, has reported back.

The health service could learn from the management practices of the big high-street chains, he told us.

NHS boss Simon Stevens responded grouchily that “the complexity of managing the NHS was greater than that of selling underwear”.