Family doctors could end up deciding how two-thirds of the health service’s budget is spent under the plans outlined by health secretary
Andrew Lansley.
GPs will be handed control over as much as £80billion of taxpayers’ cash in the most radical shake-up of the NHS in years.
They would be expected to form groups of surgeries to commission treatment from hospitals, leading to the abolition of primary care trusts and strategic health authorities.
Mr Lansley says it will hand power and choice over treatments to patients as well as hacking away mounds of NHS red tape.
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