Clause 2 - Primary Care Trusts
NHS Reform and Health Care Professions Bill
6:15 pm
Mr Simon Burns (West Chelmsford, Conservative)
Strangely, I was also talking to my GPs and I cannot believe that Chelmsford in Essex is different from Crawley in Sussex. If I remember correctly, my GPs were telling me at the time that they were terrified that a Labour Government would take away the extra powers that they had been given as fundholders. They did not want that because they liked the extra freedom and power to be able to look after their patients. That is what I heard from my GPs before the 1997 general election.