Royal College of GPs: NHS reforms in current format will lead to heath inequalities

Dr Clare Gerada, chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners, expresses fears that NHS reforms will lead to an increase in heath inequalities:

"We continue to have a number of concerns about the government's reforms, issues which we believe may damage the NHS or limit the care we are able to provide for our patients. These concerns have been outlined and reiterated pre- and post-pause.

"As a college we are extremely worried that these reforms, if implemented in their current format, will lead to an increase in damaging competition, an increase in health inequalities, and to massively increased costs in implementing this new system."