Health secretary Patricia Hewitt rejected the idea that the NHS should be run by an independent board.
Speaking at the London School of Economics, Ms Hewitt said: 'The NHS is four times the size of the Cuban economy and more centralised. That is part of its problem. And the problem can't be solved by proposing that a modern health service be run like a 1960s nationalised industry.'
A company has won a High Court procurement challenge against a clinical commissioning group.
A university site has again been named as the preferred location for a consolidated pathology service for Lancashire following a second evaluation exercise, HSJ has learned.
With mergers of CCGs picking up, Bie Nio (Pauline) Ong notes that for any organisational change to be successful it should focus more on people rather than just structure
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