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- The NHS should focus on providing quality healthcare, not on competition. The role of the regulator, “Monitor”, should reflect this and promote collaboration.
- The government’s “duty to provide” a comprehensive health service must be kept. Dropping this duty would erode the foundations of the NHS.
- “Cherry picking” by private companies must be fully ruled out, and the mechanism for preventing it must be clearly established.
- Any changes to the NHS of the scale currently proposed should be trialled in small areas for several years first
- Any new commissioning bodies should be transparent and accountable. They mustn’t be allowed to meet behind closed doors. Patients and other health professionals must be represented as well as GPs.
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