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Sir David Nicholson, the outgoing chief executive of NHS England, launched a scathing attack on Thursday on the coalition government for wasting years pursuing its pro-market reforms of the health service instead of making important necessary changes.
In his final address to top health service managers at the NHS Confederation annual conference, he took aim at the political class, saying: "We cannot let the tyranny of the electoral cycle stop us from making the real and fundamental changes that we need to make to the NHS."
He said that before the 2010 election Conservative and Liberal Democrat MPs had criss-crossed the country telling voters that Labour's plans to reconfigure hospitals would be put on hold and then, upon taking office, they produced the biggest reforms of the NHS in decades.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jun/06/nhs-england-boss-attacks-coalition
In his final address to top health service managers at the NHS Confederation annual conference, he took aim at the political class, saying: "We cannot let the tyranny of the electoral cycle stop us from making the real and fundamental changes that we need to make to the NHS."
He said that before the 2010 election Conservative and Liberal Democrat MPs had criss-crossed the country telling voters that Labour's plans to reconfigure hospitals would be put on hold and then, upon taking office, they produced the biggest reforms of the NHS in decades.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jun/06/nhs-england-boss-attacks-coalition