Public health experts condemn 'irreperable harm' of NHS reforms

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Almost 400 public health experts have given the government's NHS reforms a damning review.

They believe the Health and Social Care Bill "will do irreparable harm to the NHS, to individual patients and to society as a whole" and accused it of encouraging commercialisation of the service. As a result, they called on the House of Lords to stop the Bill's progress. A letter published in the Daily Telegraph also reiterated that the reforms do not have support from medical practitioners and their representative bodies, despite claims by Prime Minister David Cameron otherwise. However, the PM tried to claim the letter supported the reforms, telling the BBC: "When you look at th...

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