NHS chief wants to ‘embed’ a level playing field NHS chief executive David Nicholson has told a King’s Fund breakfast meeting that one of the major

If taken at face value, the remark will be welcomed by the independent sector, especially in the light of the government’s recent decision to make the NHS itself – through strategic health authorities (SHAs) – the arbiter on choice and competition issues, rather than giving this role to the regulator, the Care Quality Commission, as…