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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
And what about with that layer of Primary Care Trust management that the Conservatives abolished, which isn’t missed all these years later.
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I could suggest that PCTs aren't missed because the management of the services has just been moved around rather than a layer of management being removed completely.
https://www.bmj.com/bmj/section-pdf/...ature.full.pdf
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Under the new system commissioners have been stripped of responsibility for primary care and most specialist services, which go to the NHS Commissioning Board, while public health has gone to councils. This leaves CCGs with the £60bn part of the NHS budget that is most difficult to control—general acute care.
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It's worth reading the whole article too to understand what PCTs managed to do (and what they didn't) during their time. I'm reading it purely as an outsider to the medical world, but it has some interesting points to make.