No 1 Working towards improving health care outcomes

We are now a few weeks on from the passage of the Act. The glimpses of the direction of its implementation that we have had since then are as contradictory as the Bill itself. The Secretary of State writes to the NCB saying that they must ensure that there is autonomy for CCGs and the Chair of the NCB responds by saying that it will be some time before the NHS will be liberated from its centre.