White Paper - Equity and Excellence Liberating the NHS - briefing

The Coalition Government’s White Paper on health – Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS has been delivered to parliament and sets out the most dramatic whole system changes the NHS has seen since its inception. From abolishing Primary Care Trusts (PCT’s), expanding the creation of Social Enterprises to unprecedented proportions, to the future of Local Involvement Networks (LINks) the next few years is set to be very different and challenging for all health providers including those from the third sector, but will undoubtedly bring many opportunities too.

Charity chief executives body ACEVO has a news item describing some of the measures in the government's NHS White Paper that would have the greatest impact on the Voluntary, community and faith sector. As a White Paper is a set of proposals, details may change before it comes to implementation.