Patricia Hewitt Interview - NHS reform & PCTs PART 1

Interviewer - Simon Dedman

Former Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt was interviewed in May 2008 for a documentary about Labour's creation and constant re-organisations of Primary Care Trusts in England.

The interview starts with Hewitt addressing the difference in PCT performances before going on to address the argument that Labour has gone full circle with its health reforms. This is followed by a discussion on the lack of health provision by some PCTs and the so-called "post-code lottery" as well as the cost of halving the number of PCTs in terms of redundancies and persistent deficits.

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• hewitt
• nhs
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• reform
• primary
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• trusts
• reconfiguration
• deficit
• labour
• ivf
• pcts
• simon
• dedman

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