UK confidence in healthcare reforms saves minister Hewitt in reshuffle
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
As Clinica's daily service went to press, it seemed that UK secretary of state for health minister Patricia Hewitt would be staying at the helm of the ministry, following today's cabinet reshuffle. The recent criticism from within certain sections of the NHS - notably the nursing community - of the destabilising effects of the ongoing reforms was, it had been speculated, sufficiently damaging to the government to result in a change of frontman.