Bonfire of quangos ‘is unnecessary and puts patient safety at risk’ - The Times Online - 9th January 2008

The merger of the health and social care watchdogs as part of Gordon Brown’s “bonfire of the quangos” will pose a significant risk to patients for years, experts told MPs yesterday. The Government plans to streamline the three bodies that monitor hospitals, care homes and mental health services into one powerful “super-regulator”, known as the Care Quality Commission, by April next year. The plan was set out by Mr Brown in 2005, while he was still Chancellor, and is going through Parliament in the Health and Social Care Bill.

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