So all has been revealed or has it?

"Today's White Paper represents one of the biggest shake ups of the health system since the NHS was established" Professor Chris Ham, the Chief Executive of The King's Fund.

Andrew Lansley released his White Paper on the NHS on Monday.

The Secretary of State for Health, Andrew Lansley is expected to release his first policy next week. It is within this, we expect he will discuss his future proposals on GP commissioning. He spoke on 1^st July at the British Medical Association Annual Representatives meeting in Brighton.

It's been a while since I've last blogged and more is slowly sweeping its way through. The emergency budget was announced on 22 June 2010.The BBC has produced a summary on the key points of the emergency budget which you might find useful: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/politics/10374475.stm. 

Just to point out that the Chancellor has said that apart from Health and international aid, there will be budget cuts of 25% over five years.

The emergency budget will be held on Tuesday 22 June, this is first Budget of the new Government and will be the first Budget where the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), will provide the forecasts for the economy and public finance.

As things are slowly unfolding, the future of LINks is slowly coming through. It is envisaged that LINks will be merged with a national new organisation called Healthwatch. For those of you who were monitoring the Conservative Policy before the elections, Healthwatch was first mentioned at the Conservative Party Summit in 2006. The Healthwatch model is not yet developed. I'll keep you posted when more is unveiled.