Plans to unpick disastrous Tory NHS reforms will be unveiled today. A decade after David Cameron’s government fragmented healthcare in Britain and opened it up to the market, a white paper will be published to reverse some of the changes.
Former health secretary Andrew Lansley brought in reforms blamed for encouraging “competition” between health bodies from hospital trusts to GP surgeries, when buying in private healthcare services.
Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) will now be set up to encourage cooperation between the NHS and local councils for the overall benefit of the local population.
However campaigners say the White Paper - which was leaked at the weekend - does not go far enough and many of the Lansley reforms remain in place.
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