NHS Reorganisation

The real question is why the right hon. Gentleman, if he had these plans, did not tell the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister when they were writing the coalition agreement what he wanted to do on funding, on reorganisation and on the role of primary care trusts. Why did he allow his Government to make these pledges to the British public in May and then break their promises two months later in the White Paper? Whatever the boss of Tribal health care says about the private health care companies, he described the White Paper as"““the denationalisation of healthcare services””." He went on to say that"““this white paper could result in the biggest transfer of employment out of the public sector since the significant reforms seen in the 1980s.””" This is not what people expected when they heard the Prime Minister tell the Conservative conference last month that the NHS would be protected.