Tony Blair annual CBI dinner speech

Tony Blair annual CBI dinner speech; ENGLAND: London: INT Tony Blair MP (Prime minister) speech SOT - Recently I have met with your CBI members on two issues of concern to you / Procurement and public/private partnerships, especially in the NHS / On the first we will have active proposals for improvement across the public sector by the summer working in consultation with you / On the latter the Department for Health's Commercial Directorate, under Ken Anderson's leadership, has identified service improvements and potential savings of over 500 million pounds per year - The National Health Service IT strategy is a large and complex programme but it is having a real impact / A few weeks ago we passed the point where now, in the South of England, half of patients now have images such as x-rays taken digitally, up from just 10 percent a year ago - And of course the Independent Sector Treatment Centres (ISTCs) are consistently achieving satisfaction rates of over 94 percent / Theatre utilisation is up to 33 percent higher than in the NHS / Often as result of these changes people who used to wait months, years for routine operations like cataracts can have them done in a matter of weeks / There is room and scope for further co-opertion here and I hope you will work with us to achieve it - In addition by the end of July, we will have published the first departmental capability reviews, together with the preliminary results of the savings review, to deliver Government at the centre that is smaller, more effective and where spending matches changing priorities - Fourth, we will publish before the summer break, the Energy Review / Essentially the twin pressures of climate change and energy security are raising energy policy to the top of the agenda in the UK and around the world - Yesterday, I received the first cut of the Review / The facts are stark / By 2025, if current policy is unchanged, there will be a dramatic gap on our targets to reduce CO2 emissions / We...