By KEITH LESLIE TORONTO (CP) - Relying on private clinics to help deliver on Canada's medical wait-times strategy could result in giant American health-care providers clamouring for access to the Canadian market, former British health minister Frank Dobson warned Monday.

TORONTO (CP) - Former British Health Minister Frank Dobson is warning Canadian politicians not to embrace private clinics in their efforts to reduce surgical wait times.

FORMER Health Secretary Frank Dobson today urges Tony Blair to quit NOW. Mr Dobson, fired by the PM, says on GMTV: "Things seem to be falling apart. They're getting in such a mess - it would be better if he went now." (c) 2007 People, The; London. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.

By Wales on Sunday The nhs is being 'dismantled' and replaced by a 'health insurance system' because of government privatisation plans, former Health Secretary Frank Dobson said yesterday.