Primary Care Trusts

Obviously I cannot comment on the hon. Gentleman’s individual circumstances, but I have to agree that that seems to be an example of rushed thinking. It seems to have taken place at the last minute and smacks of the back of an envelope. In conclusion, I believe some of the reforms have been to great advantage. I believe that in some parts of the country the reforms will turn out to be very beneficial and that they will lead to improved communication and improved service delivery. However, I have real concerns on some of the issues that have emerged from the reform. I certainly believe that my own part of Kent would have been better served by a Kent Thameside primary care trust area that would at least have covered the whole of north Kent and would have had a degree of demographic coherence that is lacking in the proposed new west Kent primary care trust.