Reform must conform to today’s patients

NHS reforms, as outlined in the Health and Social Care Bill, must be made based on today’s typical patient and not the patients of 1948 when the NHS was set up. Speakers at the Westminster Health Forum, The Future of the NHS, warned that today’s typical patient has very different needs to the patients of the 1940s and, if any NHS re-configuration takes place, it should be modelled to reflect this.