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Health: NHS - Caution over plans for control board

Children's health professionals have given a lukewarm response to plans to put an independent board in charge of the NHS.

The response follows a reshuffle of the NHS's top management team inEngland thought to be in anticipation of Gordon Brown giving itindependence from political control if he becomes Prime Minister. TheBritish Medical Association also backed the idea last week, proposing aboard of governors for the NHS.

Howard Caton, head of policy at the Royal College of Nursing, did notrule out the idea but warned it might prevent politicians being held toaccount.

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