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Peter Joyce looks at recent changes in the UK’s National Health Service and asks if it is suffi ciently resilient for a mass CBRN attack


The current architecture of the UK National Health Service (NHS) is undergoing a complete restructure in order to meet the widely predicted total-care challenges expected in the very near future. We are all aware that the NHS is now going through the most significant restructure since its formation by Aneurin Bevan in July 1948. The Telegraph has called this “the biggest revolution in the NHS since its foundation.”


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Upcoming changes and obvious risks The new NHS Commissioning Board is the body which will oversee the day-to- day operation of the NHS from April 2013 as set out in the Health and Social Care Act 2012. It proposes to abolish the NHS Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) and Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs) and thereaſt er, from £60 billion to £80 billion of “commissioning”, or health care funds, would be transferred from the abolished PCTs to several hundred “clinical commissioning groups”, partly run by the general practitioners (GPs) in





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