Been quiet in this debate for a while, thought I had said all I wanted to.

Just can't help pointing out something though.. Fully agree that there are not enough safeguards in the new Health Act and I fundamentally disagree with the GP knows best bit, as successive governments have tried to engage with them and got their fingers burnt.

However... to say this government is responsible for the £20 Billion savings (or cuts depending on your spin) is disingenuous to say the least. The savings, known in NHS circles as QUIPP (look it up if you must know) was announced by Andy Burnham about a year before the election.

One of the huge issues The NHS has with the new Act is that the £20 Billion savings are even less easy to achieve now the whole infrastructure is in turmoil. (I don't know why all the fuss about the new Act, all the consultation etc. They have been dismantling to the stage of being irreversible since well before the Lords passed it art week. ABout a year ago was the point of no return.

Not Tories, just politicians.