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NHS reconfiguration 'would protect health'

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Health experts say cuts to the NHS are uncoordinated and should be used to reconfigure services, an unpopular move that would see specialist units in hospitals closing down.

Dr Mike Smith of the Patients Association and Dr Mark Porter, who chairs the consultants committee of the BMA, debate the best way forward.


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