Is this the end of the NHS’s internal market?
Three decades of market-based reforms are being rethought
CLAIRE MORRIS used to work as an ambulance paramedic in Lancaster, in north-west England. But as part of recent changes in the National Health Service, last year she moved 50 miles away to Millom, a town of 8,500 people that has struggled since the closure of its ironworks half a century ago. There she became part of a new system that continues to handle 999 calls, but now also liaises with other health workers to ensure vulnerable residents receive good enough care that they do not have to call the emergency services in the first place.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Policy transplant”
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