Daily Archives: 25/07/2010

Health white paper: Concerns over new role for GPs

Disability charities have raised key concerns over the government’s sweeping and controversial plans to reform the NHS.
The health white paper, Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS, contains plans to give GPs more power, with groups of GP practices to be given responsibility for buying treatment from hospitals and other health providers.
Primary care trusts (PCTs) and [...]

Health white paper: NICE given social care remit

The government is to hand responsibility for developing social care “quality standards” to the body that provides advice on drugs and other medical treatments.
The move to shift some social care responsibilities from the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) was contained in the health white [...]