At present the bill for the NHS reform is passing through the house of commons. Thankfully the bill is in its third form due to the reaction by the the general public and lobbying by the Labour party at all levels.
Even though the bill has been iterated on and a lot of the initial policies have been toned down or scrapped entirely we are at a water shed moment. Once this bill is pushed through by the coalition there will be no turning back the only out come is that the NHS will steadily become privatised over a number of years.
The following scenario will more than likely happen, as the government cuts front line services further were will the NHS get funding from, it will be forced to get the funding from the private sector. What this means is that the NHS will need to treat more private sector patients which will create longer waiting queues for regular patients.
One of the coalitions claims is that this bill will reduce the level of bureaucracy within the NHS, the below diagram compares the current system and the proposed system. The diagram clearly shows that the new system would introduce five extra tiers of bureaucracy.
Below diagram is courtesy of the BBC News website
Surely the best judges of any new bill would be the professional organisations that represent the interests of doctors, nurses and midwives, so far these organisations are all appose to any new bill. More detail is given in this BBC article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13942819
Finally I do not object to the NHS reform bill just because I support the opposition party. It is because I feel that the bill will do detrimental damage to the NHS and country as a whole, once these changes are implemented there will be no turning back.
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