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Doctors gunning for Health Secretary Andrew Lansley over NHS reforms

Doctors are set to deliver another blow to Andrew Lansley’s faltering NHS reforms today – by lambasting them at a specially convened conference.

Some 350 delegates have been summoned to London for an emergency meeting of the British Medical Association to discuss dozens of motions highly critical of the Health Secretary’s policies.

And the medical profession may even declare at the meeting that it has no confidence in Mr Lansley.

The meeting is expected to confirm that most doctors are firmly opposed to the controversial proposals to hand £80billion of the Health Service budget to GPs.

Doctors are expected to claim his changes will worsen patient care, squander billions of pounds and threaten the principles of the NHS.

Their motions will lay bare a nightmare scenario under which services could be cut, waiting times could lengthen and hospital departments could close – as a direct result of the reforms.

It tops an awful few days for the embattled Health Secretary, whose controversial NHS reforms are coming in for mounting criticism.

Critics say his wholesale changes – the biggest since the NHS was formed in 1948 – are being rushed through with little consultation and despite not having appeared in either of the Coalition parties’ manifestos.

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It has also emerged that former Labour Health Secretary Alan Milburn has snubbed Mr Lansley’s offer to head up the powerful quango which will run the Health Service. The Blairite MP indicated that he had no confidence that the Coalition’s policies would improve the NHS.

And on Saturday, LibDem activists voted to oppose the broad thrust of his NHS policy, in particular opening it up further to private providers.

As a result, Mr Lansley was forced to agree to allow his Health Bill to be revised as it passes through Parliament – but a Downing Street spokesman said any changes would not be ‘significant’. Critics say the Health Secretary has failed to explain why there is such an urgent need for an expensive top-down reorganisation of the NHS.

Now the BMA has called a ‘special representative meeting’ to discuss the historic changes.

The 205 motions, which are largely critical, attack the pace and scale of the reforms, the role of the market and worries over patient confidentiality.


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