Lib Dems target Burnham over patient-safety rollback in NHS Bill

Liberal Democrat health spokesperson Helen Morgan called the NHS Modernisation Bill "the greatest backward step in patient safety in a generation" and urged Health Secretary Andy Burnham to adopt amendments restoring whistleblower protections and CQC data-sharing duties. Burnham commissioned the 2010 Stafford Hospital inquiry as health secretary. The government said the Bill "explicitly preserves safe space provisions." The Bill faces its third reading on 7 September.