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NHS reforms row confuses patients

NHS reforms row confuses patientsPatients are now confused with the NHS reforms that are being talked over and over again and has created a row, senior doctors claimed.

The controversial bill must be stopped; this was stated by the Labour leader Ed Miliband MP.

He had stated in an article that there are just three months to prevent great harm being done to the NHS.

Dr Chaand Nagpaul, a GP in north London and council member of the British Medical Association, BMA, "The public, the patients actually have huge levels of satisfaction and trust in the NHS. They didn't ask for wholesale reorganization. I think most of them are quite bemused and quite concerned."

The NHS reforms have attracted criticism from various professional bodies.

One of the bodies that are opposing the reforms is the BMA and according to their estimate, three quarters of NHS workers have stated their opposition to the Bill.

Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said, "Any reform of something as important as the NHS will cause controversy. Trade unions like the BMA opposed the very creation of the NHS. Labour used to support reform but now they are jumping on the bandwagon of opposition in order to please their trade union masters."

It has also been stated by the Department of Health that in several areas, the changes are being accepted by many GPs.