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Baroness Merron (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 26 February 2025

Debate

Musculoskeletal Health: Chiropractors

Contribution

My noble friend helpfully emphasises the point about the need to provide for local populations, and ICBs are in the pole position to do that. I am sure that noble Lords will recall that we recently announced changes in the NHS operating model to move power from the centre to local leaders. I particularly refer to the NHS planning guidance, whereby we follow the recommendations of the noble Lord, Lord Darzi, to take a whole new approach and reduce the number of national targets from 32 to 18. The reason for that is to give the local systems my noble friend refers to greater control and flexibility on how local funding is deployed. Indeed, one such model could be the one my noble friend referred to.

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