Margaret Beckett on proposed Labour health service reforms

Title

Margaret Beckett on proposed Labour health service reforms

Genre

Interview

TX Date

30 Jun 1995

Year of production

1995

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Duration

00:01:49

Description

Under new Labour proposals, hospital trusts, which currently compete with each other for contracts, would become local health services, and would no longer control their own assets. GP fundholding would be abolished gradually and replaced by a system of GP commissioning. Labour would retain national bargaining on nurses pay while allowing for local flexibility. Shadow Health Secretary Margaret Beckett is asked whether her aim had been to keep the best of the reforms and throw out what she saw as the worst.

Contributors

Margaret Beckett

Keywords

Labour Party; Health; Health services; NHS; Nurses; Political parties; Doctors

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