How does this - and the proposal to integrate health and social care into a seamless package - square with the in-progress NHS reform bill designed to make the health service GP-led and working for profit?

NHS reform bill - timeline 5.

But when, to the horror of professionals and patients up and down the country, the NHS reform Bill was passed by the House of Commons last month, attention rapidly shifted to the Lords in the hope that the legislation would be stopped.

NHS reform bill - timeline 2.

The forum consists of 57 advisers and has helped reshape the controversial NHS reform bill.