title: State of oppression.
abstract: The NHS White Paper has M won favour with few, it has I faced unanimous opposition from health care organisations. It has been criticised by policy analysts, managers and patients alike. The Government's White Paper, it's said, is the most serious threat ever to Britain's NHS. Some have gone so far as to suggest that the NHS has deliberately been chosen as a test bed for Conservative principles, with services split on political lines. Kenneth Clarke's speech to the Tory Reform Club hinted that self governing hospitals would create politically divided [Illegible word] - on conservative and socialist lines - which would compete for state resources. This issue clearly effects millions of UK citizens who rightly deserve a high profile informed debate on the changes being proposed.