GP Pathfinder Consortia

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Health – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 7 June 2011.

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Photo of Andrew Lansley Andrew Lansley The Secretary of State for Health 2:30, 7 June 2011

Yes, I think my hon. Friend is absolutely right about that. What has been interesting in the listening exercise is the clear expression—on the part of front-line clinicians, general practitioners, doctors, nurses and other health professionals—of a desire to take greater responsibility for commissioning. They are only too aware of a decade of decline in productivity in the NHS, in which administration costs and staffing ballooned while front-line staffing did not increase to anything like the same extent. They want to deliver better clinical services for their patients, and to have the responsibility to do so. We are determined to give that to them.