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Warning over potential risks of NHS reforms

17 January 2011
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Warning over potential risks of NHS reformsMembers of staff in the health service and patients must be engaged when proposed government reforms to the health service are introduced.

This is according to a report from the NHS Confederation, which has raised concerns about the potential risks of changing aspects of the system and the importance of good operations management in facilitating them.

A series of 12 key points have been published by the body aimed at highlighting the threats to healthcare, based on talks between professionals, local government, specialists and patient groups.

However, entitled Liberating the NHS. What might happen?, the study also notes if they are carried out in the right way, reforms could benefit NHS staff and patients.

Nigel Edwards, acting chief executive of the NHS Confederation, stated: "We see real potential benefits in both moving decision making closer to GPs and in extending the range of providers in order to drive efficiency and innovation."

The organisation published its opinions ahead of the release of the coalition government's health and social care bill later this week, with the Royal College of GPs also expressing fears that boosting patient choice could prove detrimental to the NHS.ADNFCR-3058-ID-800345879-ADNFCR
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