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Feb 2021
Government plans to reverse Cameron-era NHS reforms
A leaked document suggests the government is planning to reverse NHS reforms in England, introduced under David Cameron in 2012.
The changes planned would aim to challenge bureaucracy and encourage health services from GP surgeries to hospitals to work more closely with social care, and the health secretary would take more direct control over NHS England.
The previous reforms saw the creation of NHS England to run the health service, and the scrapping of primary care trusts replaced by GP-led clinical commissioning groups to organise local services.
Under the latest proposals, there will be “enhanced powers of direction for the government” to “ensure that decision makers overseeing the health system at a national level are effectively held to account”.
There will also be more focus on hospitals, GPs and social care services working together to improve patient care.
Health charity The King’s Fund’s chief executive Richard Murray, said the proposals amounted to “major reform”, enabling ministers to have more direct control of public health and the NHS.
He did, however, raise concerns over the timing of such a move – “While many might agree with the ultimate objective of more integrated health and care services, there are clear risks in distracting the service when the NHS is still battling Covid-19 and in the midst of the biggest vaccination programme in our history.”
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Posted by Karen Motley, Clinical Negligence Department, Chadwick Lawrence LLP (tonymay@chadlaw.co.uk ), medical negligence lawyers and clinical negligence solicitors in Huddersfield, Leeds, Wakefield and Halifax, West Yorkshire.
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