The Health and Care Bill: All you need to know

What is it?
The Health and Care Bill is the first major piece of NHS legislation since the disastrous ‘Lansley Act’ of 2012. It focuses largely on the NHS in England and seeks to put into law the main elements of the government’s Integration and Innovation white paper, published earlier this year.
Where has it come from?
There has been widespread consensus across the NHS for several years about the damage being done to the service by the 2012 Act. It has forced decision makers