Challenge and change for the BJC

September 2007    Volume 14, Issue 4   Br J Cardiol 2007;14:189

Authors:
Kim Fox, Terry McCormack, Philip Poole-Wilson, Henry Purcell

Huge changes are underway within the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). A far-reaching programme of marketing-orientated changes has resulted in “the emergence of a new NHS where increasingly care is delivered by an ‘alphabet soup’ of agencies and public and private providers”. These changes have affected both primary and secondary care and they continue to impact on the practice of medicine.

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