Professor Alan Maynard looks forward to the real reform conversations and challenges that will start once the Health Bill becomes law.

After an interminable debate about the NHS reform bill, it will be law in May. Not that that is very relevant: CCGs are already up and running in many places. The NCB is cutting and slashing (i.e. re-disorganising) so-called “bureaucracy” by creating five layers of management to control CCGs.