NHS England’s £168bn budget should be handed to local government in a radical restructure, the Reform think-tank has suggested in a report today.
The report proposed ‘all but a few specialist NHS services’ be devolved to local government, which would offer core hospital services and be able to spend the money as it wished provided it met minimum standards of care agreed by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).
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