The Government’s NHS reforms have done little to prevent the main change that will have to take place to ensure that our health service survives and thrives in any meaningful way in the future. That is the major reorganisation of many of the patient services that are at present delivered from NHS hospitals. In the last few days of 2012, the NHS Confederation has been putting the argument for change.
The Government NHS reforms, as we shall see, will alter the architecture through which this will happen, but the arguments for clinical and financial change are becoming stronger and stronger.