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Liberal Democrat shadow health secretary Norman Lamb has called for NHS Connecting for Health to be scrapped, the Care Records Service to be abandoned, and Choose and Book to be revamped as a simple online booking system.

The MP has set out his proposals in a document, The NHS: a liberal blueprint, which the party says is not formal party policy but Lamb’s vision of a decentralised NHS.

The 44 page document also argues that patients should be in charge of their own health records and that they should be given the right to communicate with their GP by email and telephone.

Lamb’s other proposals include linking the GP Quality and Outcomes Framework payment scheme to improving patients' health, changing financial incentives in the NHS to promote the prevention of ill health, and fining people who turn up drunk in A&E and are aggressive to staff.

Taken from E-health primary care: www.ehiprimarycare.com/news/5620/lamb_sets_out_ideas_for_nhs_and_it