Andrew Lansley: GPs won’t need private help

Health secretary
Andrew Lansley has sought to allay fears about increased privatisation of the NHS as MPs debated the government’s controversial health reforms.

He insisted groups of GPs would not be required to turn to the private sector once they were handed control of much of the NHS budget to commission services from April 2013.

But Labour called on the government to drop the ‘damaging and unjustified market-based approach’ to the health and social care bill.

Shadow health secretary John Healey said: ‘What the government is doing, in one third of this legislation, is not setting up GP consortia or reducing bureaucracy in the NHS. It’s… Read the full story