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The Coalition’s health reforms were “damaging and distracting” for the NHS, and government policy for the past two years has been “devoted to limiting the damage”, health experts have said.
In a highly critical report, the King’s Fund think-tank said the reforms pushed through by the former Health Secretary Andrew Lansley had probably contributed to the current crises in the NHS.
Changes set out in the Health and Social Care Act 2012 amounted to the “biggest and most far-reaching legislation in the history of the NHS”, the King’s Fund said.
Drawn up during Mr Lansley’s time in opposition from 2005 to 2010, they were outlined in a now-notorious White Paper in 2010, subheaded “Liberating the NHS”. They led to the complete overhaul of the management and bureaucratic structure of the NHS, while also placing a stronger emphasis on competition and markets in the provision of care.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...-root-of-the-current-nhs-crisis-10027314.html
In a highly critical report, the King’s Fund think-tank said the reforms pushed through by the former Health Secretary Andrew Lansley had probably contributed to the current crises in the NHS.
Changes set out in the Health and Social Care Act 2012 amounted to the “biggest and most far-reaching legislation in the history of the NHS”, the King’s Fund said.
Drawn up during Mr Lansley’s time in opposition from 2005 to 2010, they were outlined in a now-notorious White Paper in 2010, subheaded “Liberating the NHS”. They led to the complete overhaul of the management and bureaucratic structure of the NHS, while also placing a stronger emphasis on competition and markets in the provision of care.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...-root-of-the-current-nhs-crisis-10027314.html