Lib Dems press Burnham over NHS Bill patient-safety measures

Lib Dem health spokesperson Helen Morgan called the NHS Modernisation Bill "the greatest backward step in patient safety in a generation," urging Health Secretary Andy Burnham to restore 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." It faces its third reading on 7 September.