HEALTH

Procedures for local healthcare

What prompted the change to advocate moving away from the ‘command and control’ approach to healthcare provision? Alex Thomson explores the avenues towards the next generation of local care models

As is often remarked, the NHS has long been something of a national religion – not just an organisation that we can rely on in times of need, but something in which we collectively have invested our faith and trust.

The ‘N' in NHS has come to be a key part of this: a feeling that we are all in the same boat, buoyed by relying on the same unimaginably large and complex organisation wherever we are in the country.

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