Bletchleyite
Veteran Member
The theory is that local control actually saves money since services can be tailored to the needs of local communities.
I have a friend who is a civil servant in the area of health management (not NHS) and he fairly strongly believes he'd go further than the CCGs - he believes it should be a local authority matter, subject to some specific minima, and funded through local taxation.
I would rather see it a bit more like the Bank of England - long-term and apolitical, but equally well defined.