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This is a step in the right direction in the reform of UK healthcare provision.  However, the Government has to be more radical than this in its solutions if it wants to create real improvements.  While it is right to enable NHS patients to access higher quality private provision NFR believes that the Government should follow its policy approach to the logical next step.  No britsh hospital should remain in the state sector, all healthcare provision in this country must be put in to the independent sector, both for profit and not-for-profit.

Just as the NHS can fund its patients to go to a few private hospitals to enable politicians to appear to keep some promises, so in the future it must make this opportunity open to all patients by setting the UKs health provision market free to private sector knowhow, investment and quality. An incoming Conservative government should be clear, there will be no government owned and politically controlled hospitals.