Andrew Lansley’s radical reforms will see GPs commission care for their patients, with no opt-out and no extra pay
Randeep Ramesh, social affairs editor
Andrew Lansley, the health secretary, will announce the biggest shakeup of the National Health Service since its creation in 1948 with radical proposals in a white paper on Monday. It will include plans to use markets, not targets, to improve performance, hand £80bn of taxpayers’ money to thousands of family doctors, and free foundation hospitals to leave the state sector and become “not for profit” companies. Read more…
