MPs call for more joined up commissioning

Health Committee report on Social Care calls for joined up commissioning
Commons Health Select Committee, 2 Feb 2012

• According to the Commons Health Select committee older people are being let down by fragmented care services.

• "The key to securing better outcomes for older people and other vulnerable groups, and to delivering the required efficiency savings for the NHS is joined up services."

Was it all worth it?

Were massive reforms necessary to save the NHS? Inquiry into the NHS Health Reforms
All Party Parliamentary Group Primary Care and Public Health, Jan 2012

• This report argues that the NHS was not in need of overall restructuring and highlights concerns about the cost of the reforms, at a time when the NHS has been required to make efficiency savings. It also makes recommendations on how to minimise disruption for patients and maintain quality of care over the course of the NHS reforms.