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Changes to NHS reforms - what do they really mean?
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In today's new I was interested to read that Cameron has declared a series of changes to the planned NHS reforms . The 18 week, and 4 hour waits are to stay. Commissioning will be managed by hospital
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Changes to NHS reforms - what do they really mean?

posted at 7/6/2011 9:21 PM BST on bmj.com
DrS
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In today's new I was interested to read that Cameron has declared a series of changes to the planned NHS reforms.

The 18 week, and 4 hour waits are to stay. Commissioning will be managed by hospital doctors as well as GPs. Budgets will continue to increase (in real terms).

Part of the new announcement are 5 "key points" which will supposedly make us all happy and are based on the complaints of medical staff and other organisations:

  • Doctors and nurses will be involved in new consortia planning and buying care, not just GPs
  • These groups will only take responsibility when they are ready not by April 2013 as previously envisaged
  • New "clinical senates" consisting of senior medical professionals will oversee integration of NHS services across local areas
  • NHS economic watchdog, Monitor, will have a duty to promote integration of care across an area
  • Greater competition will only be introduced when it benefits patient care and choice
I have yet to read the BMA's viewpoint on these new proposed changes. From the reports I read there is still no protection of training posts or promises to avoid doctor redundancies.

Where does the BMA stand on these changes? How much of the changes are due to pressure from the BMA and Nursing Unions? Are these changes simply a sugar coated version of the initial reforms or do they mean real changes for doctors on the wards?

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