Share tip of the week: direct-to-GP software provider

Health Secretary Andrew Lansley is planning reforms in the NHS that will hand much more spending control over to general practitioners in the next few years. Paul Hill tips a software firm that looks likely to receive a boost from the reform.

The last government managed to improve the NHS. But it came at a huge cost. The department's budget has ballooned from £40bn in 1996 to £120bn today. Waiting lists have fallen, but there's a huge amount of red-tape stifling front-line services.

Andrew Lansley, the health secretary, plans to deliver £20bn in savings over the next few years, partly by abolishing health authorities and primary care trusts, and handing control of £70bn of expenditure to GPs instead. This would eliminate 20,000 management positions, and move decision-making on treatments to those closest to the patient.

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Paul gained a degree in electrical engineering and went on to qualify as a chartered management accountant. He has extensive corporate finance and investment experience and is a member of the Securities Institute.

Over the past 16 years Paul has held top-level financial management and M&A roles for blue-chip companies such as O2, GKN and Unilever. He is now director of his own capital investment and consultancy firm, PMH Capital Limited.

Paul is an expert at analysing companies in new, fast-growing markets, and is an extremely shrewd stock-picker.