Amidst reports coming in from its members across the country that PCTs are being put under pressure to divest themselves of the community provider function, the NHS Alliance warns that any single approach based on hospitals running these services will damage patient care and the integrity of community and primary care. Although the NHS Alliance recognises that community services need transformation, a structural quick fix will not help and could, in fact, damage the progress already made in many PCTs…

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Alliance Warns Against ‘one Size Fits All’ Approach To Transforming Community Services

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