article_snippet: Mr Stevens said the set-up of NHS is too ‘fragmented’, meaning patients are passed ‘from pillar to post’.
article_snippet: Too many parts of the service are quite fragmented.
article_snippet: Increasingly that’s a problem.
article_snippet: People aren’t getting preventative care People need.
article_snippet: Often people are being passed from pillar to post, or ending up in accident and emergency departments when people could have avoided it.
article_snippet: Each area involved in this first phase of the scheme offers slightly different services depending on the needs of the population.