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Independence rules! Or does it?
Posted by James Gubb in Health on 31/05/2007
Having an independent NHS seems to be the big idea at the moment. Cameron is all for it, Brown is pondering it and Andy Burnham, the likely successor to the embattled Ms. Hewitt, is apparently sympathetic. As are a number of influential bodies. Steve Dewar, Director of Health Policy at the King’s Fund, re-ignited the debate in 2003 with his paper ‘Government & the new NHS – Time for a new relationship?’; Fiona Godlee, editor of the BMJ has been a long-term supporter; the Health Services Management Centre at Birmingham University, including Chris Ham, argued for it in their paper ‘Things can only get better?’ (April 2007); the BMA followed suit this month in ‘A Rational Way Forward for the NHS’; and today the Nuffield Trust released a pamphlet by Prof. Brian Edwards reviewing the various forms independence could take.
