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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/public-doubts-over-health-reforms.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="A poll found the majority of Britons are concerned about Andrew Lansley's proposals to reform the NHS" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-public-doubts-over-health-reforms.jpg" alt="A poll found the majority of Britons are concerned about Andrew Lansley's proposals to reform the NHS"/></a></p>
<p>Less than a third of the public support radical health reforms which will allow private companies to provide NHS services, according to a new opinion poll.</p>
<p>The YouGov survey found only 27% of people are behind health secretary Andrew Lansley&#8217;s proposals to let profit-making companies increase their role in the service.</p>
<p>Half of the 1,892 respondents opposed the policy, with hostility most evident among Lib Dem voters, where 56% were against, and just 30% in favour.</p>
<p>The use of private companies was supported by 46% of Conservative supporters who took part in the poll, while 32% were against the initiative.</p>
<p>The poll, commissioned by public services union Unison, also reveals that half the public oppose the new GP consortiums that will bet set up across England.</p>
<p>Private management groups will be used to assist the groups them with finance, planning and management.</p>
<p>The Health and Social Care Bill, which has been dubbed by experts as &#8220;the biggest shake-up of the NHS in its history,&#8221; will be debated in parliament on Monday.</p>
<p>Under the controversial plans, GPs in England will be handed the power to commission £80 billion of treatment for patients &#8211; 80% of the entire health service budget &#8211; from &#8220;any willing provider&#8221;.</p>
<p>So far, 141 GP consortia, serving more than half of the population of England, have now signed up as &#8220;pathfinders&#8221; to pilot the new arrangements ahead of their planned implementation in 2013.</p>
<p>The heads of six health unions, including the British Medical Association and the Royal College of Nursing, have written to the Government warning of their &#8220;extreme concerns&#8221; about creating greater commercial competition between the NHS and private companies within the health service.</p>
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