Last week’s BMA briefing on the Health and Social Care Bill not only argued their continuing opposition to the Government reform, but demonstrated how much they wanted to move the NHS away from modern society.

In June readers will remember that the Government’s reform of its reforms argued that they would amend their Bill to make it clear that they would outlaw any Health Minister that argued for a change in the proportion of NHS services that were provided by the public sector, the private sector or the voluntary sector. They did this because they had been stung by the accusation that they had a policy of increasing the share of NHS services to be provided by the private sector.