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- Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:59:13 -0000
NHS 'faces peril' if reform plans are derailed
Group of 50 GPs managing health services through clinical commissioning groups
say they are 'already improving services'
guardian.co.uk, Saturday 28 January 2012 11.27 GMT
A group of GPs has said the NHS 'faces peril' if reform plans are derailed.
Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Getty Images
The NHS could be "in peril" if the government's plans to overhaul it are
derailed by doctors and nurses' organisations, a group of GPs piloting the
reforms has warned.
The health secretary, Andrew Lansley, has proposed that the management of
hospitals and budgets in England is reformed by allowing doctors rather than
managers to control health services and budgets.
The British Medical Association, the Royal College of Nurses and the Royal
College of Midwives oppose the reform, describing it as a covert privatisation
of the NHS. David Cameron agreed to "pause" the reforms last year as a result
of the opposition.
But more than 50 doctors who are already managing health services through
clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), have backed the government's reforms,
saying the professional bodies did not represent their views.
"Blanket opposition to the NHS reforms by the British Medical Association and
the Royal College of Nurses is not representative of the views of GPs ? and
nurses who support us," they said in a letter.
The doctors wrote that CCGs were already improving services in the areas of
England in which they are established.
"The risks of derailing the development of clinical commissioning must not be
underestimated," they wrote. "Without strong clinical leadership and the
co-ordinated efforts of local clinicians, the NHS itself may be in peril ?
local services can only be improved if we all pull together."
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