Strip health chiefs of powers says Southport MP John Pugh

LOCAL health chiefs must be stripped of their power to make crucial decisions to end their "gross abuses", a Mersey MP will tell the government today.

Southport MP John Pugh will introduce a backbench Bill that would make unelected primary care trusts (PCTs) answerable to elected local councillors.

 The move follows anger triggered by a series of far-reaching decisions about how Merseyside health services are provided – made, Dr Pugh said, without a "democratic voice".

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