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Secret NHS plans expose breathtaking arrogance - Webb

10.05.00pm BST (GMT +0100) Fri 30th Jun 2006

NHS

Commenting on reported Government plans to privatise the commissioning of NHS services, Liberal Democrat Shadow Health Secretary, Steve Webb MP said:

"This latest episode typifies the Government's reckless approach to health reforms, with breathtaking arrogance exposed by Ministerial incompetence.

"Once again health policy is being changed by stealth without consultation, bypassing parliament, bypassing professionals and bypassing patients.

"These secret plans represent a fundamental shift in what the NHS is. For most people the NHS is about providing healthcare not simply buying it from the lowest bidder."

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