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Conservative policy documents for several years leading up to the election had pledged to “remove politics from the day-to-day running of the NHS” and to “end political micro-management”

This language was repeated in the Manifesto and has been repeated since then in both speeches and in the White Paper itself. Read the rest of this entry »

During August a lot of people are on holiday so I am going to post a weekly blog on a background issue to the current politics of the NHS before getting back to the detail of the current policy and implementation shifts in September.

The four will be

1. Her Majesty’s Treasury why does it consistently resist NHS reforms that are based upon improving productivity through organisational incentives?
2. Keeping politics out of the NHS .The Coalition government’s stated intention and how and why it is returning to ever more detailed political management.
3. The BMA and the other NHS unions
4. NHS resources over the next few years. Pressure points and deficits to come.

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Over the next few days I will post a series of blogs on how I see the new architecture of the NHS proposed by the Secretary of State working. These will be updated after the health white paper in July but this is my best guess.
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At first sight the Government’s plan – published on May 20^th – appears to provide a confused answer to the question of who is going to commission NHS health care from 2012.
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