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If we are being honest, Mark Britnell disappeared from our radar when he joined KPMG. Not sure what he has done since really, which is sad. His influence has diminished and he has become a commentator instead of the player on the pitch that he deserves to be.
As for Jim Easton - he was always the man behind the Nicholson Challenge, the £20bn QIPP requirements. QIPP has belly flopped tremendously - no-one in the service, and I mean NO-ONE gives it any credibility at all. We simply report the numbers the upward chain want to see, and if we don"t we are told to resubmit anyway, and so the thing goes on. I cannot see any excitement for Easton in continuing to bang the drum of doom for the next CSR period. Fed up of re-enacting the Emperor's new clothes, he is off to make a fast buck and ride out this crazy period of transition until we all wake up a decide to do something else me thinks (like abolish the internal market, integrate health and social care provision and commissioning at a local level, and wow - you then may actually REALLY be able to see that one from space, or from Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland who all for once have seemed to get there before us).
For now, let the boys Britnell and Easton play, whilst the rest of us mugs carry on trying to polish the very turd that our outgoing SoS left behind.