We look at the future for ICBs, after years of cuts, mergers and changes in responsibilities, and ask whether this time commissioning can be made to work. 

Also we compare this government’s NHS reforms to the 2012 Lansley Act, and discuss where the government might have to give ground if it wants to get its Health Bill through an uncooperative House of Lords.

With Henry Anderson, Mimi Launder and Dave West. 

This episode was recorded before it emerged that the government would be dropping its plan to merge HSSIB into the CQC.

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