{"id":1194,"date":"2011-02-28T10:58:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T18:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2011-03-15T11:01:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T19:01:56","slug":"nhs-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/nhs-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NHS reforms have the British Medical Association (BMA) fearing powers  that are overly restrictive and controlling, given to the new <a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/affordable-health-insurance2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1195\" title=\"health\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/affordable-health-insurance2-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/affordable-health-insurance2-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/affordable-health-insurance2-342x208.jpg 342w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/affordable-health-insurance2.jpg 483w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Health  Secretary and a new NHS Commissioning Board. It is expected that 80% of  the NHS&#8217;s budget, which is currently being debated by MPs and under the  Health and Social Care Bill, will be given to family physicians to  spend. Doctors are beginning to form groups called &#8220;consortia&#8221; to work  on commissioning services. However, the BMA say that clauses in the bill  go against the Government pledges to put physicians ahead and could  prevent them from their primary goal which is improving health care.<\/p>\n<p>The Government has spoken against claims describing them as &#8220;nonsense&#8221;.  The union is concerned that the NHS Commissioning Board will not be able  to operate free from political controversy. The Health Minister would  also be able to impose &#8220;any conditions on consortia without review&#8221;,  according to the BMA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NHS reforms have the British Medical Association (BMA) fearing powers that are overly restrictive and controlling, given to the new Health Secretary and a new NHS Commissioning Board. It is expected that 80% of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[694,693],"class_list":["post-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-british-medical-association","tag-nhs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1197,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/1197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}