STPs: Radical local modernisation plans or the end of the NHS as we know it? Controversial Sustainability and Transformation Plans are set to determine the future of England’s health service over the next four years
To some, they are bold, painful, inevitably controversial but nevertheless necessary local blueprints designed to save the NHS in England, area by area, by making it fit for the clinical, financial and organisational challenges it is facing. To others, though, they are sinister schemes that will see parts of, or even entire hospitals shut, fewer beds, the number of GP surgeries drastically reduced, NHS land sold to profiteers and private healthcare firms treating more NHS patients. What an NHS boss calls modernisation is an NHS campaigner’s road to destruction. Continue reading... The Guardian
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