Creative destruction in the NHS

摘要

When the prime minister makes two major interventions in the NHS in the space of a week, it is a sure sign that the problems of the NHS have reached the top of the government's agenda. In the second of these interventions, a speech to the New Health Network Clinician Forum, Tony Blair rehearsed the progress made in improving the performance of the NHS and argued that a "crunch point" had been reached in its reform.