The launch of Genomics England comes at a time when health secretary Hunt and the Tory government, led by Cameron, are under increasing pressure for their attempt to privatize the NHS. To highlight the accelerating pace of NHS privatization, earlier this summer activists and health professionals planned to descend on Farnham, in the heart of Jeremy Hunt's South West Surrey constituency, to canvass local people about the threat of a privatized NHS. According to the Guardian, "how the NHS looks at 75 depends more on the future of politics than on economics." The paper pointed out that the ambulance service, for example, uses 10 times more private ambulances at a cost of £4 million a year, and that between a quarter and a half of all community services are now run by Richard Branson's Virgin Care. To date, the government's health reforms have resulted in £7 billion in contracts to private firms such as Virgin, private equity-owned Care U.K., Serco and Circle, the DailyMirror reports.