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Primary Care Trusts and Ambulance Trusts

I am intrigued by the right hon. Gentleman’s line of questioning. There are very important differences, as we said in exchanges across the Floor of the House last week, between GP fundholding and the Conservative model— whereby, for completely arbitrary reasons, people had differential access to hospital treatment—and the practice-based commissioning model that we are introducing through these new reforms. Under the right hon. Gentleman’s leadership, the NHS had a bizarre paper chase involving a whole process of red tape and people chasing invoices around the system. I am happy and proud to say that we will certainly not replicate that in our NHS.