'Harebrained' Health Bill should be buried in unmarked grave - BMJ

It criticised the government for pursuing the reforms in a 'harebrained fashion' and claimed the Future Forum recommendations would leave the Bill unfit for purpose. Writing in the Journal's editorial, Dr Tony Delamothe and Dr Fiona Godlee called for the reforms to the scrapped and instead demanded the focus be put on making the £20bn of savings deemed necessary. "It would be better for the NHS, the government, and the people of England to sweep the amended Bill's mangled remains into an unmarked grave and move on," they said. The authors argued that the most important problem faci...