The new health White Paper proclaims, in its subtitle, the goal of ‘liberating the NHS’, but the ascendancy of the concept of ‘wellbeing’ threatens to consolidate the tyranny of health over patients and professionals alike.1,2
Having suggested before the election that the abolition of PCTs would be a ‘promising way of saving money and improving primary care at a stroke’,3 I find myself in an unfamiliar position of alignment with one of the more controversial proposals of the coalition government's White Paper. On first reading this hastily produced blueprint for drastic restructuring of the health service, I was struck by the claim that the …