Health reforms could damage NHS, warns draft risk register

[dipsydoodle]

Emergencies in the NHS could be less well managed under the government's controversial health reforms, according to a draft version of a risk register on the bill (PDF) which has been leaked.

Labour claimed the register served as a "damning indictment" of the health reforms which recently passed into law after a bruising parliamentary battle.

The warnings about the threat posed by the bill were issued in a draft version of the risk register, dated 28 September 2010, which was leaked to the health writer Roy Lilley.

The government has been criticised for refusing to comply with a ruling by the information commissioner to publish the Transition Risk Register, drawn up on 10 November 2010, after an FOI request by the former shadow health secretary, John Healey.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/mar/27/health-reforms-damage-nhs-risk-register

PDF here : http://origin.library.constantcontact.com/download/get/file/1102665899193-912/Health-Bill-Transition-Risk-Register-NC-15-Oct-10-Dept-Bd-Version-v1.pdf

[LeftishBrit]

1. You bet it could

I hope this goes viral.

I remember, in the 80s, owning a T-shirt bearing the legend: 'WARNING: HM GOVERNMENT CAN SERIOUSLY DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH SERVICE'. Sadly, even more true these days.