Making sense of the Health and Care Bill

Making sense of the Health and Care Bill As the Health and Care Bill is debated in the House of Commons for the first time, some in government may still recall the bruising 14 months it took for the previous piece of health legislation to get through parliament. Back in 2011 and 2012 there were big claims on all sides, with the government insisting its reforms would ‘liberate the NHS’ while the opposition argued the reforms would end it. The government found itself mired in what became the most controversial piece of NHS legislation in more than two decades. The King's Fund

See also:

• Health and Care Bill factsheets Department of Health and Social Care
• Giving the Health Secretary more power over the NHS risks taking health care backwards The Health Foundation
• The Health and Care Bill must be amended to help make workforce shortages a thing of the past The Health Foundation
• The Health and Care Bill: a threat to the operational independence of the NHS? The King's Fund
• Will the new Health and Care Bill privatise the NHS? Nuffield Trust
• Second Reading of the Health and Care Bill Nuffield Trust
• Briefing: Health and Care Bill - Second Reading Royal College of Nursing 
• RCP reaction to the health and care bill Royal College of Physicians 
• RCPsych responds to the Health and Care Bill Royal College of Psychiatrists