Planet Insurance - The NHS "car crash" and PMI

Even where we are now was rightly, in my view, described by Alan Milburn as a car crash and here is why. At local level, we will have clinical commissioning groups (rather than GP consortia) which will commission services for their areas (rather than simply patients registered with them). The governance of these groups will include a local NHS hospital trust doctor - which will blur the distinction between NHS provision and commissioning. In parallel with this clusters of Primary Care Trusts, which were to have been abolished, will remain for some considerable time. They will pr...