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Moving 15% of procedures to private sector will wreck NHS

London Ann McGauran

Plans by the government to improve the NHS by moving a major proportion of treatment to the private sector and to pay by results will wreck the NHS, a BMA conference heard.

London would be ripe for being turned into a marketplace for health care, with its "high presence of private and commercial health care and a high density of providers able to make the most of opportunities," said Dr Chaand Nagpaul, a member of the BMA’s General Practitioners Committee.

He was speaking at a seminar last week organised by the BMA’s London Regional Medical Council on the implications for London of the NHS improvement plan. Dr Nagpaul said it was the duty of the BMA to highlight the dangers of the proposals.

He added that they would "really put an end to the sort of NHS that we have all been part of … We [the . . . [Full text of this article]

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