Well perhaps not if you cannot afford to pay for hip, hernia and knee operations. With budgets likely to be shifted to gP's, never mind, its not the tories fault.
Patient care at risk under NHS reforms, experts warn - Telegraph
Operations could be cancelled as GPs try to save money under a new system that gives them control of billion-pound budgets, it has been claimed.
Standards could also suffer as doctors give preference to local hospitals or cheap private providers rather than established regional centres of excellence, while clinicians are ignored under the revised arrangements.
Royal colleges, professional bodies, think tanks and charities have written briefings for MPs on the controversial Health and Social Care Bill ahead of its second reading in the Commons on Monday. They believe the scale and pace of change being imposed on the NHS is too great when it is being asked to find £20 billion of savings within four years
Patient care at risk under NHS reforms, experts warn - Telegraph
Operations could be cancelled as GPs try to save money under a new system that gives them control of billion-pound budgets, it has been claimed.
Standards could also suffer as doctors give preference to local hospitals or cheap private providers rather than established regional centres of excellence, while clinicians are ignored under the revised arrangements.
Royal colleges, professional bodies, think tanks and charities have written briefings for MPs on the controversial Health and Social Care Bill ahead of its second reading in the Commons on Monday. They believe the scale and pace of change being imposed on the NHS is too great when it is being asked to find £20 billion of savings within four years
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