The NHS needs savings of £22bn? Only a magician could find that | Polly Toynbee The closures and mergers planned for our health service over the next three years will prove universally unpopular. Expect a huge outcry, even from Tories.
You could call what’s happening in the NHS an Adolf: in diving that’s a front somersault with three-and-a-half twists. U-turn doesn’t begin to capture the magnitude of the policy change in direction. The gigantic liner sent into a chaotic reverse by the Lansley Act is in danger of sinking, so the government appears to have suspended ideology, just praying Simon Stevens, at the helm of NHS England, can stop the capsize and save their skins.
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