The Government’s recently announced NHS Modernisation Bill represents one of the most consequential attempts to reshape the health service in over a decade.
At its core, the Bill sets out to legislate for the abolition of NHS England and the transfer of its functions to the Department of Health and Social Care. It will also mandate the establishment of a Single Patient Record to consolidate all health data under one integrated system.
The direction signals a reset in how decisions are made in the NHS, how data is used and accessed, and how value is assessed across the healthcare system.
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