Too much talk?

How many reports and guides can be written about the reorganisation of the NHS and just how many people need to be involved?

With the forthcoming demise of the PCTs as the NHS Commissioning body takes over contracts for primary care providers ( performers) in 2013 there still seems to be a total lack of clarity about how it will all fit together.

One of the latest reports to find its way to my desk is jointly penned by the British Medical Association, the dentists, various pharmacy bodies and the optical confederation, itself a home for numerous bodies. The advice is for the benefit of the local authorities who will have to set up Health and wellbeing boards to advise the NHS Commissioning board on what local services to commission from the care performers. The report advises the wellbeing boards to talk to the (shortly to be defunct) PCTs to find the lead spokespeople from the various primary care bodies locally to talk to.