Who should ‘run’ the NHS?

Civitas, 22 April 2010

Andy Cowper of healthpolicyinsight.com writes up a seminar Civitas hosted this week on the future of the NHS.  What should a new government do?  Specifically, evidence suggests the market in the NHS is not delivering anything like was anticipated.  Why?  Is it flawed?  Or is it failing because it is being blocked?  Not least, is there a fundamental problem: that the DH promotes competition, yet also hails the cultural sanctity of the NHS as a provider system; and acts as though it wants to run everything?  Read on.