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1st July 2011, 08:41
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Britain's Labour leader Ed Miliband says government's NHS alteration plans will impose an £852 million bill on British taxpayers as the planned changes will not lead to real redundancies.
Miliband faced Prime Minister David Cameron during Prime Minister's Questions, warning that the greater part of the personnel of the Strategic Health Authorities and Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), who are being dismissed, would be reemployed by PCT successors, the GP commissioning consortiums.
Miliband said after changing the original proposals for the shake-up of the NHS, the number of the service's statutory organizations will rise from 163 to 521, effectively contradicting the government's former claims that the NHS reforms are aimed at cutting bureaucracy.
In response, Cameron claimed the plans do cut the bureaucracy leading to saving of £5.
"What we inherited was a situation where the number of managers was going up four times as fast as the number of nurses. What's happened since we took over? The number of doctors has gone up, the number of bureaucrats has gone down," he said.
But Miliband challenged the PM, counting a number of cases where Cameron's administration has failed to deliver its commitments on bureaucracy, saying Cameron “promised a bonfire of quangos [but] he is creating more. He promised a better deal for patients and things are getting worse”.
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http://www.presstv.ir/detail/186977.html
Britain's Labour leader Ed Miliband says government's NHS alteration plans will impose an £852 million bill on British taxpayers as the planned changes will not lead to real redundancies.
Miliband faced Prime Minister David Cameron during Prime Minister's Questions, warning that the greater part of the personnel of the Strategic Health Authorities and Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), who are being dismissed, would be reemployed by PCT successors, the GP commissioning consortiums.
Miliband said after changing the original proposals for the shake-up of the NHS, the number of the service's statutory organizations will rise from 163 to 521, effectively contradicting the government's former claims that the NHS reforms are aimed at cutting bureaucracy.
In response, Cameron claimed the plans do cut the bureaucracy leading to saving of £5.
"What we inherited was a situation where the number of managers was going up four times as fast as the number of nurses. What's happened since we took over? The number of doctors has gone up, the number of bureaucrats has gone down," he said.
But Miliband challenged the PM, counting a number of cases where Cameron's administration has failed to deliver its commitments on bureaucracy, saying Cameron “promised a bonfire of quangos [but] he is creating more. He promised a better deal for patients and things are getting worse”.
source
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/186977.html