Health select committee report

On the face of it, the recommendations of the Commons health select committee seem to be a good contribution to the argument. But Andrew Lansley surely can't accept the presence of hospital doctors on the boards of the commissioning authorities (PCTs 2.0?). It would be hard to manage competing interests if a "local" and "public" supplier had a representative on the commissioner. The purchasing of non-NHS services would still be possible, of course, but it would be embedded in a public service and therefore protected from the rawest competition. As I said, a useful contribution.