No more top down NHS reorganisations - Tory promise

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They promised:

Before the election the Conservatives repeatedly promised “no more top down reorganisations” of the NHS. David Cameron said that "With the Conservatives there will be no more of the tiresome, meddlesome, top-down re-structures that have dominated the last decade of the NHS." This was reiterated in the Coalition agreement. (Andrew Lansley, Conservative Party press release, 11 July 2007; David Cameron, speech at the Royal College of Pathologists, 2 November 2009; The Coalition: our programme for government, 20 May 2010, p. 24)

They broke their promise:

The Government’s July White Paper “Equity and Excellence; Liberating the NHS” proposes the biggest reorganisation of the NHS in its 62 year history. Strategic Health Authorities and Primary Care Trusts will be abolished, and commissioning responsibilities will be transferred to GPs. Dr Clare Gerada, Chair of the Royal College of GPs, has said, "I think it is the end of the NHS as we currently know it". (Guardian, 19 November 2010)

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