Introduction

Chapters 13, 14 and 15 take up the up the story of the significant and controversial organisational reforms introduced by the coalition Government which was elected in May 2010. This reform process is traced from the Election manifestos of 2010 through the publication of the White Paper, Liberating the NHS in 2010 (DoH 2010c), the publication of the Health and Social Care Bill (2011), the passage of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 and subsequent events up until the publication of The NHS Five Year Forward View in October 2014 (NHS England 2014a).