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31 January 2012
Editors of three leading healthcare publications have heavily criticised the government’s proposed NHS reforms, calling for a public debate on its future to “salvage some good” from the plans.
In an editorial published simultaneously by the BMJ, Health Service Journal and Nursing Times, the editors of the three publications have said the NHS “is far too important to be left at the mercy of ideological and incompetent intervention”.
They suggested that parliament should now establish an independently appointed standing commission “to initiate a mature and informed national discussion on the future of our national health system”.
Otherwise, once the bill becomes law, they believe that health professionals will still be in the dark about how the new system will work and that the system itself will not be fit for purpose. They also warned that “another major NHS reform programme is guaranteed within five years”.