TY - JOUR T1 - Liberating the NHS JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 699 LP - 699 DO - 10.3399/bjgp10X515566 VL - 60 IS - 578 AU - Mike Fitzpatrick Y1 - 2010/09/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/60/578/699.abstract N2 - 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.1,2Having 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 … ER -