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Bradford MP calls for a rethink on Health Reforms
March 13, 2012 5:50 PM
David Ward MP has today called for the Health Bill to be pulled and for a meeting of Royal Colleges to be convened to rethink plans for the NHS in line with the Coalition Agreement.
Mr Ward is a cosignatory of an Amendment, tabled by Lib Dem backbench MPs, calling on the Government to drop the Health and Social Care Bill and declining to support the Bill in its current form.
Commenting, David Ward said:
"There is still a lot of concern about these reforms, both among those who work in the NHS and those who use it. I have been clear that I am not prepared to support the Bill in its current form and that is why I have joined my Lib Dem colleagues in tabling this Amendment.
"The Liberal Democrats have made literally thousands of changes to the Bill, which is now much improved. Unfortunately, it still doesn't honour the Coalition Agreement and has not won the support of the professionals who know the health service best.
"We have to carry people with us on this otherwise any reforms are bound to fail. The Government need to get round the table with the Royal Colleges and plan the future of the health service based on what was set out in the Coalition agreement."
The Amendment:
As an Amendment to Edward Miliband's proposed Motion (Health and Social Care Bill):
Line 2, leave out from 'Bill;' to end and add 'declines to support the Bill in its current form; and calls for an urgent summit of the Royal Colleges, professional bodies, patients' organisations and the Government to plan health reforms based on the Coalition Agreement.'.