MPs recommend 'vital' health bill amendments

They also believe that GPs consortia should be renamed and control commissioning for primary, secondary and community care, meaning the government's proposed local health and wellbeing boards would be unnecessary. The announcement's timing is particularly key, coming a day after Andrew Lansley MP, the Health Secretary, announced a pause in the progress of the Health and Social Care Bill through Parliament to listen to national concerns about the reforms. The Health Select Committee said its changes were ‘vital' to enable the NHS to meet the unprecedented challenge it faces of finding ...