I love the NHS not a ‘rampant unrestrained market’, says Cameron

Been at Ealing Hospital where David Cameron has been delivering a speech on the NHS reforms in a small, rather warm lecture theatre.

This speech is about selling the overall idea of NHS reform and convincing people he’s not introducing a rampant unrestrained market.

On this latter point, the PM singled out Professor Steve Field’s Guardian interview as proof of how this is a proper re-think aimed at significant changes to the original Lansley masterplan (Prof Field is in charge of the policy review).

That Guardian article left Team Lansley pretty annoyed so you get a flavour of the tensions within government on this.

As with Prof Field’s words, the PM is emphasising “integrated” care, evolution not revolution and “no cherry-picking” by private sector providers.

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Steve Field’s interview emphasised broadening the goals of Monitor from just promoting competition – that now seems a dead cert for the June government paper on changes to the Bill.

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