Can health professionals stop the NHS reforms before it is too late?

摘要

In April 2010, just days before the election that led to the coalition government, then prime minister Gordon Brown, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg and shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley all addressed nurses at RCN congress in Bournemouth. The political heavyweights' speeches made a vivid impression on Rod Thomson, director of public health for Shropshire and an RCN council member. 'The common message that came from all three was that the last thing the NHS needed was a top-down reorganisation,' he recalls.