Prime Minister David Cameron has promised to make ‘substantive changes' to the NHS reforms currently before Parliament.
In a speech at Ealing Hospital in West London the Prime Minister explained that he did not want to pre-empt the changes but did hint that commissioning would not be solely down to GPs. The progress of the coalition government's controversial Health and Social Care Bill is currently being paused for a listening exercise to gauge concerns voiced by many medical practitioners and experts. One of the key criticisms of the Bill is the implementation of GP-only consortia to commission healthcare services around the country. But the Prime Minister appeared to suggest that other medical st...
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