<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Text of statute as originally enacted </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Revised text of statute as amended </Th> </Tr> <P> The Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c 7) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom . It provides for the most extensive reorganisation of the structure of the National Health Service in England to date . It removed responsibility for the health of citizens from the Secretary of State for Health, which the post had carried since the inception of the NHS in 1948 . It abolished NHS primary care trusts (PCTs) and Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs) and transferred between £ 60 billion and £ 80 billion of "commissioning", or health care funds, from the abolished PCTs to several hundred "clinical commissioning groups", partly run by the general practitioners (GPs) in England but a major point of access for private service providers . A new executive agency of the Department of Health, Public Health England, was established under the Act on 1 April 2013 . </P> <P> The proposals are primarily the result of policies of the then Secretary of State for Health, Andrew Lansley . Writing in the BMJ, Clive Peedell (co-chairman of the NHS Consultants Association and a consultant clinical oncologist) compared the policies with academic analyses of privatisation and found "evidence that privatisation is an inevitable consequence of many of the policies contained in the Health and Social Care Bill". Lansley said that claims that the government is attempting to privatise the NHS are "ludicrous scaremongering". </P>

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