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NHS White Paper Recommends Major Restructuring

Health Minister, Andrew Lansley, has announced proposals for the NHS in England to undergo a radical overhaul. 

By 2011/12, every general practitioner would have to join a commissioning consortium, essentially abolishing the Primary Care Trust and Strategic Health Authorities system currently in operation.

As a result of the changes:

• The NHS would be streamlined with fewer layers of bureaucracy
• Strategic Health Authorities and Primary Care Trusts would be phased out.
• Management costs would be reduced so that as much resource as possible supports frontline services
• Patients would have access to more information and choice, and be able to register with the GP of their choice
• GPs would effectively become responsible for the majority of the UK’s £110 billion health care budget

The new structure would be held accountable by an independent NHS board, free from political interference, the government has said.

For further information: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_117353

News Date: July 2010

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