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  The Tory-led government wants to place sweeping powers with a new national QUANGO - the National Commissioning Board - and a national economic regulator charged with promoting and enforcing competition to open up all parts of the NHS to private health companies.
  
  The Health and Social Care Bill seriously restricts openness, scrutiny and accountability both to the public and to Parliament. It will lead to an NHS in which "commercial in confidence" will be stamped on many of the most important decisions.
  The Conservative ideology towards full market competition at the heart of this legislation conflicts with Doctors who warn the plans will be "the end of the NHS as we currently know it".
  
  The reorganisation, which the NHS chief executive has described as "enormous - beyond anything that anybody from the public or private sector has witnessed" is piling on extra unnecessary pressure on the health service. It comes at a time when patients and staff are already seeing waiting lists grow and services cutback.
  
  Led by the BMA, organisations speaking for NHS staff say the scale, speed and cost of the changes are "extremely risky and potentially disastrous".Hopefully Clegg will see through this policy and persuade his members to put pressure on Cameron to think again.

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