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com.com. Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics podcast. I'm Cindy You and I'm joined by James Forsyth and Katie Bals.

So today the health secretary Matt Hancock was on the airwaves to talk about something other than the pandemic. Katie, he set out reforms that he wanted to see happening in the NHS. Can you tell us what they are?

Yes. So Matt Hancock was talking about this idea of reforming the health and care services so they can work more closely together.

And he was suggesting that this would bring various changes that would allow a focus on the health of the population, not just the health of patients.

This is something we knew was coming. But I think that in terms of the timing, Labour had been

questioning it, wondering really if in the midst of a pandemic, given we're not quite out just yet,

and depending on who you speak to, we're quite a long way from being out of it, is now the time to be shaking things up.

And on the proposed legislation, part of what the shake-up will see is the law change,

so you're ultimately reversing the reforms of the NHS in England under David Cameron back in 2012.

So I think a lot of this is about almost, you know, Ministers are very keen to say they're taking control.

And so it's taking power away from the NHS and making it more direct.

They say therefore it be more accountable.

But I think often you get quite a lot of tough rhetoric.

And the question is, does that mean there will be more responsibility?

And you'll be able to say, well, this went wrong because of this decision by this person or will it actually be easier said than done?

James, what do you make of the reforms firstly?

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