BMA hails end of tendering

The BMA has welcomed proposals in the NHS Long-Term Plan around potential legislative changes to remove restrictive competition rules in the health service.

Council chairman Dr Chaand Nagpaul said: ‘Since the inception of competition rules embodied in the Health and Social Care Act in 2012, the BMA has consistently called for such a wasteful use of resource to be scrapped; so to see NHS England recognise this is long overdue.