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<p>The Government is ignoring concerns about &#8220;risky&#8221; plans for overhauling the NHS, campaigners and unions said.</p>
<p>Ministers were also accused of &#8220;masking&#8221; a funding shortfall for hospitals as the health service tries to find up to £20 billion in efficiency savings by 2015.</p>
<p>The Government said today £89 billion will go direct to primary care trusts (PCTs) for frontline services next year, which it insisted was equivalent to a £2.6 billion (3%) increase in funding.</p>
<p>But the British Medical Association (BMA) said it did not accept the claim, arguing that local services are already being &#8220;rationed&#8221;.</p>
<p>BMA chairman Dr Hamish Meldrum said: &#8220;The stated 3% increase in funding for primary care trusts includes £1 billion already announced to cover additional social care responsibilities and masks the fact that hospitals will have to do a lot more work to achieve the same income.&#8221;</p>
<p>The BMA and other unions also criticised the Government&#8217;s response to a consultation on its white paper to reform the NHS.</p>
<p>Ministers said they intended to push ahead with the radical plans, which will abolish PCTs and strategic health authorities (SHAs).</p>
<p>GPs will take control of most of the NHS budget by 2013, planning hospital care and services for patients.</p>
<p>Some 52 &#8220;GP consortia&#8221; have already signed up to manage local NHS budgets, covering a quarter of the population.</p>
<p>The Government said it had listened to the concerns and made amendments, such as placing commissioning of maternity services with GPs instead of a National Commissioning Board and allowing a &#8220;longer and more phased transition period&#8221; for some reforms.</p>
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