Health and Social Care Bill revised Impact Assessment published
皇冠体育app revised Impact Assessment for the Health and Social Care Bill has been published today.
It outlines the benefits of implementing the policies proposed in the NHS White Paper 鈥楨quity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS鈥�.
This Impact Assessment is an update to the versions that were published in January 2011, when the Bill was first introduced into Parliament.
Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said: 鈥樆使谔逵齛pp revised Impact Assessment shows that the cost of modernising the NHS is only a fraction of the savings which will result.
鈥榃e are cutting waste and are still on track to reduce administrative spend by a third. Every penny saved will be reinvested into patient care, delivering significant long-term benefits to patients.
鈥極ur plans, which have been strengthened by the listening exercise, will both safeguard the future of our NHS and move us closer to a health service that puts patients at the heart of everything it does.
鈥樆使谔逵齛ppy ensure that future generations can rely on an NHS that is always there, always improving and always free at the point of use, based on need and not ability to pay.鈥�