About market reforms
Recent reforms in England have actively promoted a market in healthcare. This means we now have competition between health providers with NHS organisations having to compete with each other and with big business.These reforms are moving the NHS away from its founding principles.
The NHS faces huge financial challenges and we believe we can save money by abandoning this market in healthcare – money that should be redirected to frontline patient care.
Find out more about market reforms:
- Private Finance Initiative (PFI)
- Independent Sector Treatment Centres
- Payment by Results (PbR)
- Commercially provided GP-led health centres (polyclinics)
- Commissioning and the purchaser-provider split
- Impact of transforming community services
Find out more about the role/impact of competition and the market in the NHS
Find out more about the role/impact of the market in primary care/general-practice
Read an overview of the BMA’s arguments against NHS reforms here.
