'Disastrous' NHS restructuring at the root of current crisis

The 'damaging' NHS reforms made by the coalition have been condemned by a leading think-tank

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The NHS ‘winter crisis’ fuelled the need for more beds
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The government's controversial restructuring of the NHS has failed patients, led to an increase in waiting times and decreased performance a damning report has found.

The King's Fund, a leading health think-tank, said the changes made by the coalition had left the structures of the NHS so "complex, confusing and bureaucratic" that the organisation of the service was no longer "fit for purpose", The Guardian reports.

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